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LOCALS,
Miss Minnie Kichardsou, of Ceres, is
on a visit to our town this week.
Mrs. C. G. Power and Miss Eddie Jar-
rctt visited Cullode.n last week.
Miss Bessie Smith, who is attending
school in Barnesville, came home last
Friday to spend two or three days with
relatives and friends.
The ladies are invited to tail at our
store and examine our beautiful line ot
calicoes, chailics, plain and figured lawns,
handkerchiefs . and other goods just re-
ce ived. Wright & Allen.
In another column of this paper will be
found a card from Prof. C. G. Power, re¬
lative to the Knoxville High School,
which he is principal. The school
prosperous, yet there is room for more,
ami he solicits your patronage. The
school is an excellent one.
Miss Emma Brown, who is
school at Elam church in this
in tow n during the past week, visiting
Misses Lillie and Mamie Blasingame. The
Herald is pleased to state that the at¬
tendance at Miss Emma's school is very
satisfactory, there being between thirty-
live and forty pupils.
lu our allusion to Mr. Jitn Ilornc and
his shingle business in last week’s Heh-
AM), we fiud that we omitted to state
that he is now only twent -one years of
age, and, consequently, commenced his
work of getting shingles when lour years
lold. On learning this, we concluded at
once that he had been attached to one
end of the saw and used as a balance
weight, but he affirmed that he stood up
like a man and helped to do the sawing.
ITEMS FROM FAIRVIEW.
Energetic Farmers—Schools—Per¬
sonals.
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The Sabbath-School opened at this
place under the most auspicious circum-
There were about seventy-five
members present. Mr. T. F. Mathews is
a faithful superintendent and a consci-
entious worker in the cause.
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The literary school is progressing as
usual. Numbers forty-one pupil* at
©resent.
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Mr. Easton llowell, in removing an old
house, stepped on a nail that went nearly
through his foot, which is causing him
•mtnc trouble.
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There has been some sickness in the
family of Mr. J. L. Wilkes.
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Miss Mamie Cherry, of Macon, has
been visiting friends in Crawford. She
is looking well and happy. M.
CERES CULLINGS.
Fertilizers —R. R, Petition — Clearing
Land—Planting Corn—Personal.
Some of our farmers are planting corn.
Commercial fertilizers are being used
wry tion. heavily by the farmers of this sec-
Miss Sallie Smith and Mr. Hull V.
visited relatives in Thomaston
week.
There has been an unusual amount of
Waring of land recently by the farmers
our community.
Mr. Y. B. Horne is about the first to
finish putting out guano for this season.
Mr. Young Allen is circulating a pe-
tition to the Macon and Birmingham R.
R. to locate a depot on his place.
Death of Mr. Hancock.
After a short but serious illness, Mr.
" anson Hancock, of this county, de-
Parted this life on Saturday morning
**t. only eight or ten days having
since he was in apparently robust
His di«ease, pneumonia, termi-
his life so quickly that his death
* as a surprise to many of our citizens.
circumstances attending the death
Mr. Hancock are peculiarly sad, as he
ad been married only a few weeks, and
i* untimely leaves death, as it might seem to
‘S, desolate the heart of one who
?»d fondly hoped to share with him life’s
r aried experiences. We tender our
T’*pathy cath to those over whose lives the
shadow has been cast.
KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO., GA., THURSDAY. MARCH (i, 1810. VOL. I. NO. 3.
LETTER FROM Mr. JOHN
DENT.
Bridge Building—Wholesale
Drowning—Down on the
Suwanee River-White
Sulphur Springs.
After completing the large draw-bridge
at Columbia, Ala., we went twenty miles
down the Chattahoochee river to Gordon,
which is in the extreme southeast of Ala¬
bama. Here we built a draw-bridge for
the Alabama Midland. I saw eleven Ne¬
groes drowned at one time during our
stay there.
It often afforded me much pleasure
while at Gordon to witness the flocks of
cranes and fish-hawks to be found at all
times in a marshy pond near where we
were located. The young birds are per¬
fectly white, and they were so numerous
the whole place seemed at times to be
covered with snow.
Leaving Gordon I went to Valdosta, Alapaha
liver, twenty miles Tsouth of
where we constructed a small bridge for
the G. S. <fc F. railroad. There, I think,
is the greatest curiosity I ever saw. The
river, two miles south of where it is
crossed by the road, suddenly told disappears
underground; and I was by Mr. Vv.
F. McCall, a large and wealthy planter,
who hns been living near there for thirty
years, that, so far as is known, it never
comes to the surface again.
From Alapaha we went down to the
beautiful and world renowned Suwanee
river, where the flowers bloom as early as
Crawford county candidates,across which
we built a bridge near the great White
Sulphur spring. It is estimated that
from this spring flow 25,000 gallons of
fine sulphur water per minute. They have
the finest normal school there in the State,
and I consider it the healthiest place months in
Florida, for I remained there five
without a day’s sickness, and you all
know what a puny little fellow I am.
John Dent.
NOTES FROM HAMMCOK’S DIS¬
TRICT.
Advanced Farming Operations--Fer-
tilizers—■Encouraging Prospects.
February, 25, 1890.
We welcome with much pleasure the
Crawford county Herald, and sincerely
hope that the good sense of our people
will see to it that in this age of ad¬
vanced intelligence our county must
have and will sustain this effort of the
Herald to give them a medium of home
advertisements and communication.
The farmers, the merchants, the doctors,
the lawyers, the ladies, and last, but
not least, our schools and churches need
it; then let us sustain it for our own
interest and county observation pride. the
So far as my goes,
farmers of this good old District arc
fuither advanced with their work, and
in better shape for a crop than 1 have
ever known them. The good crops aud
prices last year seem to have gotten a
move on them which will bring them
through if they will continue to push.
Car load aftf r car load of guano is being
hauled from the depot to the farm, and
we are buying it some cheaper than ever
before. In fact every thing the farmer
needs is as cheap as he could reasonably
ask it, with prospects flattering for a
good price for all the cotton we can
make, so this humble scribe would ssy
to his brother farmers, make all the cot¬
ton we can.
Success to the lie raid.
Hammocks.
ITIXODEN COKltKHPONDUNCE.
Riainfu Artivr—“.I oh i»n“~ Advert Ue Your
BnwinruH—Mat rim on > .
Cn.LODKN, Ga., February 27, 1890.—
Our little city is all life and activity. The
merchants are kept busy trying to fill the
wagon trains rolling in from the country,
and the aromatic “Joano” fails not to
make its presence known. Our town,
and the rest of the neighltoriug world,
would be better off still if wc were l*ct-
ter advertised.
The little sly god has been getting in in
some of his successful work here
past few months, and several hearts are
as happy and as near one as preachers and
love can make them.
Yesterdav. at 5 p. m., President B»s?,
of Wesleyan College, joined in matri¬
mony Mr. Weaver, of Americus, Ga.,and
Miss Sallie Holt, of this place. Also to¬
day, our genial and promising married young
phisician, J. H. Maddox, was to
Miss Towns, of Scnoia, and Madame Ru-
mor bas it that other* will soon follow.
Success and long life to them all.
SntrLEx.
SANDY POINT PENCILING S.
Activity? Among the Farmers—The
"Grippe"—Working the Roads.
Editor Herald Sandy Point sends
her greetings, and congratulates established. you on
the excellent paper you have
We hope for it a lorg and prosperous ex¬
istence, and will endeavor to do our part
towards the fulfilling of that dtsire.
Our farmers are at work with renewed
energy, and seem determined that suc¬
cess shall crown their efforts. We hope
for them a plenteous harvest. The good
ladies are busy with their gardens, and and
from the constant show of buggies
footmen going and coming fiom Mr.
Hancock’s store, it appears that he is do¬
ing a good business in “the garden seed
traffic.”
“The Grippe,” so called, is raging
down here, and many find it quite disa¬
greeable. have had heavy rainfall to-day.
We a
which suspended road-working and
other outdoor business.
Our best wishes for the paper. lv.
His Fishing Experience.
Something new and entirely original
in the chapter of incidents transpired a
few days ago in the Elam neighborhood.
The parties at interest were a boy, a cat¬
fish and a house cat.
The boy, who, we understand, is a
pupil of the Elam school, had set a
couple of fish-hooks in the creek under
the bridge, and on going lo look after
them found on one of the hooks a good-
s zed cat-fish; but when he raised the
other pi le, to his utter surprise, there
dangled at the end of the line quite a
different kind of a “cat” from the other
—an old house cat. We suppose the cat¬
fish was caught in trying to get possess¬ and
ion of the bait on one of the hooks,
the house eat lost its life in its efforts to
get the fish, while the young angler at
the oiher end of the line, as is usual with
the boys, came out ahead of both.
A BANK ASSIGNS.
THE COUNTY OFFICIALS THE PRINCIPAL
LOSERS—GREAT EXCITEM ENT.
The banking firm of C. L. Lewis A
Co., doing business in Winchester, Ind.,
a town Tuesday of $3,000 inhabitants, closed its
doors morning and made an as¬
signment. All of the county officials
made deposits with the hank, and conse¬
quently are heavy losers. The treasurer
will lose $3,500, the auditor $2,500 and
quite a number of other persons will lose
smaller amounts, ranging from $100 to
$1,000. The firm has been doing busi¬
ness for a uumber of years, and was re¬
garded as one of the most substantial
banking houses in the state. Great ex¬
citement prevails over the assignment.
DRY GOODS ABLAZE.
A LARGE FIRE IN NEW YORK--A LOSS
OF $300,099.
The dry goods district of New York
iva- visited by a fierce fire Tuesday even
ing, which destroyed the five-story iron
front building. N *. 592 Broadway, and
burned up everything within its walls,
involving a total loss of $300,000. The
principal losers are M. A C. Mayer, im¬
porters of hosiery and gloves, and Beacon
& Eaton, manufacturers of fine umbrella?
and parasols. Ten firemen were slightly
injured. Damages are estimated as fol¬
lows: Mayer, $125,000: Beacon & Eaton,
$100.000'; Brown Comb company. $25,-
000; Harvey & Co.. $25,000. Damage
to the building, $25,000.
THE CASHIER SKIPPED
WITH $30,000 OF THE RANK’S MONEY IN
HIS POSSESSION'.
A dispatch Tuesday from Louisville
Ky., says: William II. Pope, teller of the
Louisville City National bank, absconded
on last Saturday evening with $60,000 ol
the bank’s cash in his heard possession. him. Noth¬
ing has since been of It is
supposed he is now in Canada. The bank
will not be inconvenienced by the loss,
which will amount to wot more that
$40,000. as Pope furnished a gilt-edged
bond of $20,000
A CIGARETTE TRUST.
the American tobacco company scoops
A GREAT CIGARETTE MANUFACTORY.
A special from Durham. N. C., of
Monday, says: It is now an established fact
that the great cigarette manufacturing
concern of 55. Duke, 8ons A Lo., ha?
sold its plant, as in fact have all the other
large cigarette factories in the country, to
the American Tobacco Company, which
has a capital of $5,000,000. to continue
the same business. The Durham factory
will be continued under the old man¬
agement.
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CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CABLE.
things that happen from day to day
throughout the world, cut LED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
The title of Henry M. Stanley’s book
is: •‘The Darkest Africa: the Quest, the
Rescue and Retreat of Emin.”
near Anitichkoff palace, mK Pc U mb
burg where the and imperial
ami j aic icsiding.
Several snow storms and frosts arc re-
ported in England and in various parts
of Europe. Among the regions visited
are Rome and Trurere.
George Dowell, of Ohillicothc, Mo., set
a gun trap for a thief. Mrs. Dowell did
not know the trap had been set and
walked into it and was killed.
L. L. Bastow, the defeated candidate
on the democratic ticket for lieutenant-
governor in Iowa, was on Saturday eandi nomi¬
nated by the democratic cam us as
date for United States senator.
A dispatch from Atchison, Kansas, conclu¬ re¬
ports that George W. Howell has
ded the purchase of 100,000 acres of pine
land situated on both sides of the Sabine
river. By the purchase he controls over
100 miles of river front.
A London dispatch, of Saturday, says :
The men-of-war “Atlanta” and “Boston,”
of the American squadron of evolution,
have arrived at Genoa. The “Chicago”
and “Yorktown,” the other two vessels of
the squadron, have reached Spezzia.
Three palace and sleeping cars, three
passenger and mail cars and forty box
rars—worth in all about 110,000—are
-trewn along the Brazilian coast for miles.
They were on the British bark island, Joequinna, and
which was lost near Rucas
wore built at Wilmington, Del., for a
Santos railroad.
A special of Monday from Jefferson
Uity, Missouri, says State Treasurer No¬
land has been suspended. No cause for
the suspension is known, except the
rumor which gained some credence to
the effect that Noland wa« in trouble
over his accounts with the state, Gov-
ernor Francis is examining the books.
A special from Lamar, Mo., says: Dur¬
ing an entertainment which was held at
Short's school, twelve miles of there, Sat¬
urday night, four men became engaged in
a quarrel. witnessed Mrs. Henry Short, during who was
present, it, and its pro¬
gress she fainted and died. Six men re¬
ceived painful wounds in the course of
the row.
It is reported from St. Paul, Minn.,
that the surveyors of the Great Northern
railroad have discovered a pass in the
Rocky Mountains, near Mary’s Fork,
which opens the way into a rich aud fer¬
tile country, through which no road has
ever penetrated. Aline front Anaconda,
Mont., direct to San Francisco will be
built at once.
A dispatch, on Tuesday, from Guthrie,
I. T., says: The press reports emanating
from Topeka, Kansas, concerning the and al¬
leged schemes to colonize Oklahoma
make a negro state, have greatly aroused
the settlers at Downs. A secret organi¬
zation there has decided to drive out the
few negroes, and allow no more of that
race to become settlers.
A Minneapolis, Minn., dispatch says:
Hugh McCormick defeated Axel Paulsen
in a ten mile skating race at White Bear
lake on Saturday. The race was for the
world’s championship of speed championship skaters—
$400 a side—aud Paulsen’s
medal. McCormick’s time was 39.9 with
Paulsen one-third of a mile behind. Fully
3,000 people witnessed the race.
The suit brought Railroad' by the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and company against
John H. Inman as director, member of
the executive committee and fiscal agent,
to recover $2,500,000 which, it was al¬
leged, he together with Nathaniel Bax¬
ter, Jr., and A. M. Shook, wrongfully
appropriated, was discontinued by mut¬
ual agreement at New York on Monday.
A bill before the Ohio legislature is convicted pro¬
vides that when any person
of a crime, it shall be the duty of the
court to inquire if the person convicted
has a wife or any children under eighteen
years of age depending upon him for
support. If there are such persons, the
family is entitled to receive 99 cents per
day from the county for their support.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Rus¬
sia, says: The Granfidanin comments on
what it considers the lack of wisdom
shown by the powers that have consented
to take part m the labor conference at
Berlin. The conference, the paper be¬
lieves, will tend to add economic supe¬
riority to the military preponderance al¬
ready exercised by Germany over Europe,
and it is on this ground that it censures
the powers for giving their support to the
project.
The oelTjeighto be
THE HAFJING C HAWES,
THE NOTED MTTimEWSH PATS THE PENAT/F^
OF HIS CRIME.
Dick Hawes tested the strength of *•
five-eights sea wired rope at Birmingham, haDg*
Ala.,Friday at 12:58 o’clock. The
ing was the most sensatioual and interest-*
ing ever known in Alabama, thrilling and chapter* wily
make one of the most
in the criminal history of the state. By
nine o’clock a crowd of a thousand peo-
pie had congregated about the jail, ami
V P li»*
Cl to pass {, that
of officers 0XC(;pt those w 0 had passes,
gy jg the crowd numbered near 0,000.
11 o’clock, Deputy Lockhart en-
tere(1 tlie j ail . u „i interrupted the devo-
tional exerc j scs i on g enough to read the?
death warrant. When the deputy in-
formed Hawes of the object of his mis-
aion,he said: “Standup,Dick.” Hawes
arose, and placing his bands behind him,
looked the officer in the face. Ihca
Lockhart read the death warrant. Havre*
heard it through without a tremor or
without moving a muscle. At a quarter thw
after twelve Ed Griffin went upon
scaffold, and adjusted the rope to tint
beam. It was made tight by an iron
staple. Griffin is the man who built tin?
scaffold. Griffin was a member of tin?
jury that convicted Hawes. Griffin is
now one of Sheriff Smith’s deputies, iBei
helped to hang the man, whom he, as ;»
juror, said sltonld die. Hawes wen#
upon the scaffold, accompanied bv th«?
sheriff, a deputy, and the two ministers.
He walked with a firm step. There wa*
less trepidation about him than abou$
any of the one hundred men in the in¬
closure, and it was apparent to all.. Hi*
nerve was remarkable, and those who saw
him could not keep from admiring it.
THE PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS.
As lie stepped to the front of the gal¬
lows. he moved his head to one side t<|
avoid the rope. Then as he stood at the
front of the gallows, Sheriff Smith,
standing beside him, said: “Dick, raised hayd hi*
you anything to say V” Hawes hi*
right hand to his mouth, :md gave
mou it ache a twist. There was not a trem¬
or in the movement. Never in his life
did he twist that beard with a quieter crow<>
nerve. Then looking over the
caraly he said: “I only want written to say out
the congregation that 1 have
a full statement of this whole don’t thing, wan$
and it is a true one. I
any man in the world o think
that I died with a o on m*
lips. That is all I it a to my.
Hawes walked to the front of the scaf¬
fold, and Sheriff Smith adjusted the rope.
The prisoner was calm. There wfts no exj
citement about him. As the sheriff raised
the cap, Hawes said: “I want you all t<f
had.” shun whisky The and vile women. adjusted, I wish anc| |
cap was
Hawes’s vision of those before him waif
shut out forever. Just as the sheriff ws*
stepping back to give the signal to th*
man in the basement to pull the string,
Hawes called out: “Joe, let me stand
here a minute please.” His voice wa*
still and steady, but it was muffled by
the black cap. The sheriff waited «
minute and then began, “One—two-—
three.” As the word three was uttered
the string pulled, the trap dropped and
Hawes’s body went up an inch or two,and
then settled again at the end of the rope.
It was 12 :58 when the drop fell, and it*
fourteen minute* the doctors said he wa»
dead. The body was turned over to Mr.
Frank Hilbum, of Atlanta, and taken
home for burial.
THE WRITTEN 8TATEMET.
The written statement llawes has mad*
is supposed to be in the hands of th$
printers. It was written by Hawes, an<f
was given to Col. Taliaferro, his attor*
ncy, by whom it was, on Fri¬
day, surrendered by Ha-wes’a directions,
to some one to be printed in book form.
The proceeds of the sales are to go to hi*
boy. It consists of forty pages of hi*
life and sixteen pages of the crime.
Colonel Taliaferro has read it, and say#
that it is the same story he told on *h*
atand on February 18th last, the only dif¬
ference being in reference to May. Of
her he says be brought her to town and
turned her over to the party named in the
statement, aud that that party carried her
to the lake and put her out of the way.
The statement asserts that all were put to
death by drowning.
A FATED DAY.
Saturday, the last day of the week, i4
has figured conspicuously in the life
Dick llawes. He was born on Saturday,
was married to Emma Pettis on Saturday.
He discovered evidence of his wife’s in¬
fidelity on Saturday, murdered Mrs.
Hawes and Irene on Saturday. Tlici#
bodies were found on Saturday. The
jail riot occured on Saturday. He was
•entenced to be hanged on Saturday. affirm¬
The opin:on of the supreme court
ing the decision in the case was writfeii
on Saturday, and on Saturday his body
was buried.
Two Chinese noblemen have contracted fof
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