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CntauU Chat.
Catania was well represented at
the Harris county fair.
Frost Sunday morning Sept. 30th
at Hudson’s mill.
Mrs. Mary Gipson, of Muscogee
county, paid a visit to Mrs Walter
Williams last week.
Mrs. William Grier ard Miss Jame
Jenkins, of Ellerslie, paid a visit to
our town last week, guests of Mrs.
T. J. Thomaston
Mrs. George (’lark, of near Colum¬
bus, was in our town recently on a
visit to Mrs. Walter Williams.
Rev. J. W. Wilson and Mr. J. D.
Fly attended the Western associa
tion that convened with Union
church near YVhitesville Oct. 3rd.
Prof. Thomaston closed out his
school at Oak Grove academy Fri¬
day. The patrons are highly pleased
with him as a teacher and would be
•dad to secure his services for the en
suing year.
Farmers are taking advantage of
the beautiful weather and are gather¬
ing their cotton with a vim. Cotton
lus opened rapidly for the past week
and with a few more such’weeks far¬
mers will make good headway in
gathering their crops. Catterpillars
and rust are plentiful in the cotton
fields.
Mr. William Hart exhibited to me
a few days ago Sloan’s celebrated six
wheel sewing machine casters that is
ahead of anything of the kind we ev
er saw. I consider it the ladies
friend and those that use sewing ma¬
chines ought to have one by all means.
With these casters, the machine can
be moved to any part of the room by
a five old child.
We attended the Harris county
fair last week at Hamilton and was
surprised as well as delighted to see
1 he fine display our county made at
t heir first fair. With our county pride
we are compelled to say, hurrah! for
grand old Harris. We defy any
county in Georgia to excel our agri¬
cultural display. The*ladies depart¬
ment was fine and we really feel
P roudofour Harris county ladies.
Some of the exhibits in the ornamen¬
tal and art department were said by
competent judges could not be excel
cd. A seed wreath made by Mrs.T J.
Thomaston was pronounced by all as
beautiful. Mrs. Milo Parker, Mrs. E.
II. Williams, Mrs. Geoige Radcliff,
Miss Mollie Walton and a good
man y others had beautiful work in
t te ornamental and art depart
ments. Our own district made
a fine display. All praise is due to
Mr.Thomas Kimbrough and others in
our district for working up the fair.
Miss Lucy Kimbrough, age fifteen,
made a fine display of pickles, preser- 1
ves, jellies and wines. Mrs. ])r.
Copeland har a beautiful exhibit of
preserves, pickles, wine and jellies.
Mrs. Geo. Murran, of Chipley, had a
beautiful hair wreath. Judge Allen
brought in a fine display from Chip
ley for ail the departments of the fair.
If we had a few more such energetic
men as the Judge scattered over the
county no telling wlut they could
work up.
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ONE BLACK DROP.
Byron was wise when he wrote V “A
drop . fiu Ink make b million
01 may a
think." This is indeed true when the
v black i in*j- fluid is used , ^ to enlighten i . the .
world on the merits of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery. ] et
consumptives everywhere hear the
glad tidings. Try it ail, who breathe
with pain and toss in fever through
the long night hours. You will find
the cough gone and sleep as balmy as
a child’s will visit your 1 pillow. 1 You
wili thank the drop of ink that brought
the message of mercy to yon.
$500 REWARD.
So confident are the manufacturers
of Dr. Sage,s Catarrh Remedy in
their ability to cure chronic nasal ca¬
tarrh, no matter how bad or how long
standing, that they offer, in good faith,
the above reward for a case which
they cannot cure, Remedy sold by
druggists at 50 cents.
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HELP IN Tiiir TIME OF ajcpn NLtlUi
When a man is drowning lie will grasp at straws,
but straws will not save him. Extend to him a
life-boat and his rescue is certain.
Mr. James A. Greer, of Athens. Ga., (endorsedby
the editor of the Athens Banner-Watchman) makes
the following statement:
“I am first cousin of the late Ex-Governor Alex
ander 11. Stephens, and have been postal clerk on
different railroads since 1868. f or ten years I hi 'e
CANCER been a sufferer from a cancer on
my face, which grew worse
until the discharge of matter became profuse and
very offensive. I became thoroughly disgusted with
blood purifiers and pronounced them humbugs, as
1 had tried many without relief.
Finally I was induced to use Botanic Blood Balm,
(B. B. B.) The offensive discharge decreased at
once and the hardness disappeared, It became less
and less in size until nothing remains except a scar
I gained flesh and strength, and all who have seen
me bear testimony. 1 cannot say too much in its
praise.”
A. II. Morris, Pine Bluff, Ark., writes:
“Hot Springs failed entirely to cure me of several
terrible, indolent running ulcers on mv legs, with
which I have been troubled for many years. Sever
al doctors also attempted to cure me but failed. I
HOT SPRINGS liaVC ° nly USed a feW
b° ttlesof B ' L. B-,
, (made a • in Atlanta, a*i n Ga.,) \ and theeflect has been truly
magical,as they have all healed and I am cured after
everything failed. My general health is also improv
ing, appetite and digestion good. I sleep soundly,
and never felt better. Doctors told me that I could
not be cured.
I refer to every merchant or professional man of
Pine Bluff.
Any one intei jsted who desires to know more
about the wonderful merit of B. B. B., will please
send address to Blocd Balm Co., Atlanta, G.u. for
their illustrated “Bo jk of Wonders.” •.i)
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
: Bismarck has begun to suffer from insom
inia.
\ McKee Rankin has abandoned his Austra¬
lian tour.
Milan, of Servia, is said to be, financially,
the poorest king living.
The king of Sweden has been appointed an
admiral m the German navy.
Mathias Romero, the Mexican minister at
Washington, has obtained leave to visit Eu¬
rope.
Sir John Savile Lurnley, late British am¬
bassador at Rome, has been retired to the
peei-age.
flerr von Bennigsen, leader of the German
Liberal party, has been appointed governor
of Hanover.
The Q)j nes? minister at Washington has
developed a great fondness for watching pro
fessional baseball,
Sir Morel 1 Mackenzie is at work upon his
reply to the German physicians, which will
be shortly issued in book form.
’,‘1"toil"
mons, is the owner of a brewery which is
sui “ u> P“- v l,i "‘ * 1 - 500 ' 000 a year.
Ilerr Tisza, the Hungarian prime minister,
is about GO years old, stout and swarthy,
with coal black hair and beard. His man
ners are more emphatic than courtly.
Prince Henry of . Battenberg _ . recently .. of- ,
fended her majesty, his mother-in-law, by
remarking that lie was glad to visit “the land
of Great Scott.” For indulging in slang
Victoria docked his pocket money for a week,
Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria has for
some time practiced successfully as an oculist,
givmg advice and treatment gratis. Young
Prince Louis Ferdinand has just finished his
medical studies, and will begin to practice
also.
Senator Ingalls, while presiding over the
senate, makes use of the old fashioned time
glass to measure the five minute speeches of
the national orators, a senator beginning his
speech with the glass full of sand, and he has
to stop when the bulb is empty.
Leo XIII is said to be suffering from ill
health, although the public is not permitted
to know just what his real condition is. He
is troubled with nervousness and has a morbid
fear of death, his imagination magnifying
^ ie s jjgij test indisposition into serious dis
orders,
De Lesseps is approaching his S3d birthday.
It is said that the “Duke of Suez,” as he is
playfully called, when he went up for his
bachelor’s degree, in 1823, passed creditably
in the humanities, but failed miserably in
geography; lie could not tell the cardinal
points on the map!
Gen. Salomon, the exiled president of
Hayti, is reported to have a vast fortune
securely invested in France, but it is not
lilftdy that this is true. His salary was only
$25,000 a year, and as he had no control of
the national funds he had no opportunity for
enriching himself irregularly.
The youngest enlisted man in the Union
army during the late war was Albert C.
White, who is now pastor of the Amesbury
(Mass.) Universalist church. He was born in
in 18.>.3 in Newark, O., and when not quite
9 years old was mustered into service as a
drummer in Company D of the Sixth-fourth
Ohio volunteers.
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is very hard
at work on a uoveL
Mrs. Marilla M. Ricker is a successful law
yer of YY ashington.
Queen Natalie of Servia has decided to
°P eu tt salou iu Baris.
Mine. Carnot, wife of the French president,
her hair on one side .
Amelie Ki\es _ Chanler ^ is said to be very
happy in her married life,
Mme. Lippmann, daughter of M. Dumas,
has made a great hit iu amateur theatricals.
Miss Robinson, of Staten Island, champion
ladv tennis player of the United States, has
won twenty-four prizes. :
Miss Ada Harvey, the first female child
born in Denver, is 18 years old, and is now
visiting the scenes of her babyhood.
Princess Beatrice has sent some of her own
musical compositions to the exhibition of
Oman’s industries in Sydney, Australia.
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Mrs. Mackay, called the Silver Queen in
London, is froing to rent the Duke of Suther¬
land’s celebrated mansion, “Stafford house/
A statistician has discovered that in “Her
od and Mariamne” Amelie Rives makes use
of the word “mad” and its variations no less
than eighty-eight times.
Mi-s. Carlisle is said to enjoy having guests
at dinner, and to desire her husband, the
speaker, to possible* bring friends home with him
whenever Mr^. Carlisle is now
keeping house at Washington for the first
time.
Mis® Leona Dare, the famous athlete, re¬
cently made a balloon ascension in England,
hanging by her feet from a trapeze. On
alighting, six miles away, she found that she
had forgotten her clothing, and had to ride
back to town in an open wagon clad only in
tights.
Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter’s Egyptian tea
gown, made for her in Paris, is a perfectly
accurate Egyptian abava, as the national
gown worn by every woman in the land of
^rfby to
uot impossible that the dusky queen loosened
just such a kind of garment so as to allow
the asp to give her the fatal wound.
MEN OF LETTERS.
Swinburne has a new volume of poems in
P ress -
E. P. Roe wrote the last chapter of “Miss
Lou” on the day of his death.
Tarascon has never forgiven M. Daudet
f° r “Tartarin,” and will not permit any
his works to find lodgment on the shelves
its public Horary.
Walt Whitman is greatly improved in
health and expresses a hope to be up and
around before winter sets in. He is still at
work on his “November Boughs.”
M. Zola says it is a mistake to regard the
French as a democratic people. No nation
is more wedded to aristocratic ideas or
fonder of outward marks of distinction,
R. H. Stoddard, the poet, has a lock of
hair believed to have been cut from the bead
of Milton. It is a light brown or golden and
has been successively owned by Dr. Johnson,
Leigh Hunt, George H. Boker and others.
Robert Louis Stevenson cites the Church
of England prayer book as an example of
perfection in literary style. He said re
eentlv: “There is not one word in the whole
of it which is not of near aesthetic kin to all
the rest.”
Lord Wolseley contradicts in The Fort
nightly Review the idea that little men &>.
braver than big men. One of the ve.vy
bravest he ever knew was G feet 4 inches..
Among the nations he singles out Turkey
with special praise for '>er fighting qualit
THEATRICAL NOTES.
Carlotta Tacti is teaching singing in Paris.
Mile. Rhea brings back from France two
new ky Sardou.
Clara Louise Kellogg is in Paris, prepar
Ing for her American tour.
Blondiu will make a tour of all the large
cities next summer with Imre Kiralfy.
Patti will give European concerts in Jan¬
uary and February and then start again for
Buenos Ayres.
Steele Mackaye, it is said, will inherit
nearly a quarter of a million out of his
father’s estate.
Mrs. James Brown Pottq^ has thirteen new
Parisian dresses with which to elevate the
stage this season.
Jules Levy, the cornetist, has organized a
concert company for the coming season. It
will be under the management of Aaron Ap¬
pleton, and among the artists engaged are
Stella Costa, Henry Braton and Wallace Mc
Creery.
Old Lady (to despondent small boy)—Why
are you not playing ball with the other little
boys, sonny?”
Small Boy (with tears in his eyes) —De em
plre fined me fi’ cen’s yistiddy fer back talk,
an’ dis mornin’ I got my release from de
club.—The Epoch.