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LOCALS.
blisses Eddie Jarrett and Minnie Moore
-isited Culloden Saturday last.
Miss Minnie Moore, of Macoa, is visit-
i 1<r relatives aud friends in Knoxville.
Mr. M. It. Carnes, of West Kn oxville,
isited friends in East Kuoxv illc last
reek.
Twenty-seven new civil cases are dock-
ted for the March term of •Crawford Su-
court.
I .Sheriff B. A. Hartley spe nt a day or
wo among his friends m the Sixth dis-
nct during the past week.
Mr. Lee \Y atson, one of Macon s com-
tourists, spent a day or two of
past week in our town.
I Call at Wright & Allen’s and examine ready-
handsomest stock of gent’s
clotliiug ever shown in Knoxville,
I Thirteen suits of clothing, aggregating
were sold by Wright & Allen last
first day they were re-
|)el I Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Blasingame, fami- of
Ray, Ga., were on a visit to the
hr of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Blasingame a
days the past week.
I Misses Lizzie and Carrie Jones, who
been visiting the family of Dr. J.W.
returned to the Central City on
■Vednesday of last week.
I Wright & Allen buy their clothing di-
|ect from the manufacturers. the profit In of this middlc- way
hey are able to save
nen and give their customers the benefit
if it.
Elsewhere in the Herald will be found
he card of Smith & Blasingame, At-
orneys-at-luw. Business will be attend¬
'd to promptly when placed in their
lands.
Col. AV. P. Blasingame has something
o sav to the people about a cheap and
ilentiful supply of money in this issue
>f the Herald. Read his advertisement
md call on him.
There is at present only one prisoner in
lie Knoxville jail, and that for a minor
iffeiice. Where can a more orderly and
aw-abiding people be found than the
■itizens of the good old county of Craw
ord
Messrs. T. F. Mathews and John T.
Bndrews have bought a new, 20-horse
Bower saw mill, and it has been located a
Biort distance from town, near the resi-
ence of Mr. Mathews.
The property in Knoxville belonging deceased, to
ic estate of John 8. Crockett,
■nd embracing a store and dwelling-
Touxe, was disposed of at public sale on
Tuesday of last week. Mr. 1L H. Ray, of
paeon, Icing was the purchaser, the price paid
$8,50.
I We understand that a company of
|<mng ndies and people, consisting of had five young
one young man, an en-
pyahle bg time at a candy pulling one eveu-
the past week at the residence of Mr.
Ind Mrs. C. T. Blasingame. Five to
fne. I__ Wliat’s tlie matter with the *' voting C5
hen? n
From Oor Robley Correspondent.
Robley, Ga., March 8th, 1890.
Having been kindly requested by the
M'tor to write up the news from this
■lace, I send a few items gathered from
Bu ever quiet but progressive community.
I The cool weather and rain of the past
B w days have slightly retarded farming
Bperations, Bteadily but the farmers are going
on with their work. The lands
Bve being prepared for the coming crops,
■lthough B'cii little or no planting has as vet
done.
■ ^ rom the present outlook there will be
j mt very- The little fruit this year in this sec-
•°n. peach trees, from some un-
oiown lie few cause, are rapidly dying out, and
that had put forth blooms were
tilled by the late freeze.
Mr. E. S. AVellons and wife, of Perry,
t •a., spent several days of the past week
siting Miss relatives in this community.
Viva Connell, of Taylor county,
v Air. ' 'siting the family of Air. II. C. Smith.
R. G. Taylor, having removed his
>lace of residence to the Roberts old
•nmestead, fitted his former dwelling house has
>een up as a school room, and Aliss
Cla A\ ilson, an accomplished young lady
lf t ullodeu, is teaching school there this
t Mr. ]i. p Harris has been sick for sev-
«* weeks at his father's home near this
fctee but is now aide t o be out again.
p> m bolds a position wit — a bridge con¬
traction company, aud has been at work
or some time near Alacon, Ga., but was
“ken sick and returned home to regain
iroken health among the hills of his
P'tive [The county.
members of the Oak Grove Farm-
P* --i Alliance, true to their order, have
p 44 for to the use Cotton hanging as a cover-
next crop of cotton,
mews is scarce ami hard to find, espe-
ally so for ~ a Plow Boy.
KNOXVILLE. CRAAVTORD CO., GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 13. 890. AT)L. I. NO. 4.
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.
The editor of the Herald had the
pleasure of meeting with Mr. W. E.
Champion, . horn the Sixth a . district, 4 t while ...
in K “ ravill<! ’ ““ Satuld8 - V >“• »« re '
ported that a considerable portion of the
sugar cane that had been reserved for
planting was killed by the recent cold
weather, and instead of being used for a
crop, as intended, it was made into syrup.
The Corn crop, he states, was lost also,
or d deal of it, which w ill necessi-
tate replanting. has been materially in-
The oat crop
jural, and Mr. C. thinks it a total loss
where far enough advanced for the stalks
to be jointed. It’s an ill wind that blows
.nobody good, 'tis said, and this seems to
have been verified in regard to the oat
crop in that section of the county, and we
suppose elsewhere, as the Hessian flies,
which w ere said to be very numerous,
were all destroyed by the cold weather,
which will, in this way, prove advanta¬
geous to the oats that were left.
Mr. Champion reports everything in
fine condition on the farms, the farmers
having been unusually diligent and ener-
getic, and in every department of farm
work special progress 1ms been made.
Guano and other fertilizers have been
used in large Quantities, and everything
has a tendency to extra effort to secure au
abundant harvest the present year.
More meat has been killed in this sec¬
tion the past season than for many years,
and the farmers,almost without an excep¬
tion, have a bountiful supply of it on
hand. It is gratifying to learn that very
little meat was lost in consequence of the
warm winter just passed.
On the subject of schools, Mr. Champ¬
ion was very hopeful, and we might better say
enthusiastic. He says they have
and more flourishing schools, with a larger
attendance than ever before. Of course
nothing but good results can follow any
special effort in this direction, and it is
the evident intention of the citizens, of
the Sixth District to be found among those
who can claim for themselves progress,
prosperity and independence. They arc
a sociable and generous hearted people,
and merit any good fortune that may be
theirs.
CULLODEN CORRESPONDENCE
Culloden, Ga., Marce 7, 1890.
We were glad to sec the Herald’s ed¬
itor and lady in our tow n one day this
week, and hope the few hours again. here were
pleasantly spent. blossoms Come rule the day here.
Orange marriages within week,
Three happy wanting one
and several more men to marry
is doing pretty well for a small city. Two
were chronicled last week and now comes
the third one. Mr. Willie C. Jones,
formerly of your county, but now T a rising
business man of this place, was married
to Miss McGinty, of Monroe county, night at
three p, m., Wednesday last and at
au elegant reception was given them by
Mr. and Mrs. 15. 15. McGowan, at their
residence in Crawford county, and the
next day just such a welcome and dining
were given them by the popular host and
hostess of the Davis House as were ex¬
tended Dr. Maddox and his accom¬
plished bride a few evenings previous. made
Thus within the week two. newly
families take up their abode at the Davis
House, which has a peculiar aud happy
way of extending comfort and welcome
to all cornel's and goers, as well as stay¬
ers. It has a few old bachelors on hand
yet, who, I think, are seeking exposed flying,
places where Cupids arrows are think
and from appearances one seems to
he is hit, and is already sighing aud
smiling .and hoping. Go right along
boys, a bad choice can't be made in that
line in Culloden.
Mrs. A. Walker, one of our oldest
citizens, was buried here this week.
Notes from Hammock’s District.
Hammock’s, March 7, 1890.
A regular blizzard, minus the sleet.
gave us a most unwelcome call last Sun¬
day'. The whole winter seemed com¬
pressed into a day or two, aud it found
us all unprepared—in fact, wc w-ere con¬
gratulating ourselves that approaching
spring bade us forward our farm anil gar¬
den work, which was being done with a
will. But, alas! the icy touch laid all
vegetation low. aud the laggards are now
lioasting of being up with their work, and
getting once more an even start.
The fruit aud oat crops, if not totally
ruined, are seriously damaged, sass” and tell noth¬ the
ing is left of “garden life, and to let be
tale. But such is us
thankful it is no worse, and go to work
aud build up the waste places. They say-
deep freezes are good pulverizers, so .let
us claim that much good out of it.
“La grippe” is aliout played and out, I
guess, for want of material, we re-
joiee that it touched us so lightly—have in this
heard of no serious or fatal cases
district.
Miss Ada Wilson, of Culloden, is
teaching school near Mr. Edgar Jordan's,
and from what I know of Miss Ada, 1
think the neighborhood fortunate in se¬
curing her services.
Hammocks.
The Drtunmor Ahead.
One characteristic of flic drummer or
commercial tourist seems to be that he is
continually coming in contact with some¬
thing or somebody, and the experience of
some of them occasionally would seem to
indicate that about as wise and prudent a
thing as they could do would be to pro¬
vide themselves with an accident insur¬
ance policy.
This thought is suggested by a ludic-
rious and amusing incident that came un¬
der jur observation a few days ago in the
conductor’s cab of a local freight train on
the A. & F. Railroad.
As we were delayed in reaching the
depot, the passenger train had gone on
ahcad . ind alI the othcr passengers with
., ^> , . hut , entering , . the
as " c su PP ose on
cab we were greeted by a couple of At-
Uinta's popular and ubiqiutousdrummers.
Not being intended for passenger travel,
a local freight train is and not especially
suited to such a purpose, has a way
peculiarly its own of making very sudden
and unexpected movements in either di¬
rection.
As the train rolled up to a station on
the road one of our drummer friends, to
save time, as usual, was on his feet and
ready to go in quest of a customer; but he
had calculated a little ahead of railroad
time, as the train, after having come and to a
halt, suddenly moved forward, as
suddenly laid him full length across a
stove which did not seem to have been
put up in as substantial a manner as
stoves sometimes are, and both went
down together. For a minute or
two it was hard to tell
which of the two would sustain the
most serious injury, the decided stove or in the
drummer, but it was soon scrambled fa¬
vor of the latter, as he up from
among the ruins aud began to brush off
the soot and arrange his toilet. The only
reason lie gave for his performance had stopped. was
that he thought the traiu
The most serious results were a soiled suit
of clothes, hands and face, a dislocated
joint or two—of stove-pipe—and a de¬
molished stove. The drummer, as might
have been expected, is again “right side
up with care and still in the ring.”
Grand and Traverse Jury List.
The following is a list of Grand aud
Traverse Jurors drawn for Crawford Supe¬
rior Court, March Term, 1890:
grand jurors.
J. N. Powell, B. AV. Sanford,
John J. Britt, Sr, John S. Sandefur,
J. L. Parsons, E\ Danielly,
S. II. Causey, T. J. Martin,
J. II. Joyner, J. L. Marshall,
J. A. Moore, J. AV. Stroud,
H. C. White, B. J. Champion,
A. J. Moats, M. F. Perry,
I). W. Sanders, If. 1). McCrary, Cochran,
S. M. Myricli, Thomas
L. T. Jones, Jeff Davis,
W. G. Hartley, A. C. Sanders,
W. B. Jordan, C. C. Graddick,
Elisha Mathews, J. H Irby,
A. F. Williams, H. K. AVebb.
TRAVERSE JURORS.
J. AA r . Arnold A\ T . J. Dent,
C. S. Fincher, Wm. Hudson,
R. S. Hancock, D. A. O’Neal,
II. I). Fincher, L. P. Lee,
J. M. AVebb, R. F. Tidwell,
James II. Autry, Jack Hancock
XS .T • P v__- « A. ^ , A. J. Danielly, Knight'
Hugh Bankston, A. F.
J. Lafayette Bryant, Jerome Hancock,
AV. AI. Miller, James B. Parham
S. B. Causey, James Barfield,
'J- J- Britt, Jr. S. A. Long,
J. D. Pierce, R. E. Bankston,
J. T. Rigdon, J. S. Long, White,
B. Alurchinsou, Rufus
T. J. Bryant. C. H. Marshall,
AV. E. Champion, J. AY. Gregorv,
Buck Visage, Philip AIcCarty.
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A GHASTLY PARCEL.
TRE HEAD OF A WOMAN SENT TO A RUS¬
SIAN PRINCE.
A horrible tragedy has come to light it
AIoscow, Russia. On Friday a parcel Dol
was left at the residence of Prince
geronkoff, which npor. examination wm
found to contain the head of a woman.
With fhe parcel was left a notice bearing
no signatare, saying: “This is our first
exploit. We will siion outdo Jack
the Ripper.” It is believed the womai
■ was killed for betraying the nihilists.
SOUTHERN MITES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALI
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE.
The Pecos River Railroad company at
Austin, Texas, was chartered Friday with
a capital of $400,000.
A dispatch of Saturday from Birming¬
ham, Ala., says: Deputy Sheriff Jackson,
of Lamar county, has been killed by llube
Burrow, the noted train robber and out¬
law.
A lire at Andorson, S. C., on Thursday
burned the large livery stables of R. J.
Southerland. Ten horses were burned to
death. The loss is over $6,000. There
was only $500 insurance on the stables.
The city authorities and board of trade
of Columbus, Ga., have united in tender¬
ing a memorial to the Pan-American eon-
gress, setting forth the city’s advantages visit.
and inviting the delegates to pay a
The contract for the building of a com¬
plete set of water works at Henderson, N.
C., has been awarded to Mr. J. L. Lud¬
low, of Winston. There are to be sixty-
eight hydrants, for which the town is tc
pay an annual rental of $2,700.
At an enthusiastic meeting of citizens
at Somerset, Miss., on Saturday, solicit subscrip¬ a com¬
mittee was appointed to
tions for a stock company to build a cot¬
ton factory. The legislature empowered
the city to subscribe $20,000. Capital
stock $2.30,000.
A number of prominent colored men of
Louisiana met at New Orleans on Thurs¬
day and organized a central association
for the State under the constitution of
the “Citizens’ Equal Rights Association.”
The meeting was called by Pinchback,
who will call a similar convention in each
of the Southern States.
There is great excitement in the vicin¬
ity of Sorentuin Head, Sumner county, spotted
Tenn., over the appearance of
fever, or malignant meningetis. There
have been seven deaths, and there are
several new cases. Those who take it
live only a short time, some dying in
twenty-four hours.
The trial of ex-President Holden and
ex-Secretury two indictments Pullen, at charging Memphis, larceny, Tenn.,
on
embezzlement and fraudulent breach of
trust, came to an end Monday, Holden
was acquitted on all the counts, The
jury found Pullen guilty on the first
count and fixed his punishment at fifteen
days in the work-house.
Seventeen hundred people attended an
entertainment Monday night at the Yen-
dome at Nashville, Tenn., for the benefit
of the Jefferson Davis monument fund.
The Young Men’s Democraric club had
charge of the affair, and fully $1,200 was
realized above expenses. Chief Justice
Turney, of the Tennessee supreme cotirt,
delivered an address en the life and char¬
acter of Mr. Davis.
A Huntsville, Ala., dispatch stockhold- says:
The meeting of the minority rail-
ers of the Memphis and Charleston
road company 1 J was not held there Thurs-
day as advertised, Circuit Judge Henry
C. Speake, of that district, having pre¬
viously granted a writ of injunction holding re¬
straining said stockholders from
the the meeting. East Tenneseee, The injunction A’irginia was and granted Geor¬
gia railroad.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, of the Friday, rfi-
says: Superintendent Fuller, father of
eitic Express company', and the
AA'alton, the absconding agent, are there
and have secured from a house of ill
fame a package containing $16,940,
AYalton left this package in a woman's
charge when he ran away. This, with
$8,000 given up by the absconder in New
Brunswick, makes $24,940 of the original
$35,000 stolen.
Baxter Brotherton, a constable of Han¬
cock county, and three raftsmen were ar¬
rested at Chattanooga, Tenn., Alonday,
for stealing a raft of logs, valued at $1,000.
The four men cut the raft loose in the up¬
per portion of Hancock county, their in¬
tention being to float it to Chattanooga
and sell it. The owner of the raft discov¬
ered the theft a few hours later, and swore
out warrants against the quartette, whe
were placed in the county jail.
The Atlanta Constitution reports that an
attempt is being made to palm off on the
public a spurious volume of the Life and
AVrit ngs of Henry Grady, and says: “AA'e
beg our exchanges throughout the coun¬
try, in justice to the memory of Air. Gra-
3y, and in justice to his wife, his mother
and his children, to announce to their
readers that the only authorized volume
containing his life, his writings and his
speeches, is published by Cassell & Co„
of New York, and edited by Joel Chand¬
ler Hands.”
Trouble has broken out in Oklahoma
owing to alleged efforts to colonized the new
territory with sufficient colored people Government. to ena¬
ble them to run the Territorial
A BAND OF INCENDIARIES.
A MOONSHINE ORGAHIZATION DISCOVERED
IN PK KENS COUNTY, GA.
A moonshine organization has been ur>~
earthed in Pickens county, Georgia, .
whose members are bound together by
solemn oath for the protection of its- its
members, and the punishment of inform-
ers. “The honest man's friend and pro¬
tector,” is the tittle of the organization,and
on its roll are tw enty-seven existence sworn about mem¬
bers. It has bean in a
year and already a number of crimes are
charged to its ac mint, the latest the burn¬
ing of three houses within the past two
months. The burning of a government baud.
distillery is also charged to this
The prime object of the organization is
the driving out of the county all who are
supposed to haw been guilty of the of¬
fense of giving information to the revenue
officers and also for the purpose of in¬
timidating witnesses. For some months
past the revenue officers have moonshine suspected
the existence of the clan, 01 a
brotherhood of sums sort, Active meas¬
ures, however, were directed to the fer¬
reting out of the: members and their
strength until last December, when the
revenue officers and county officers com¬
bined to bring the offenders to jusltce and
effectually break up their organization. his
The ring-leader and eleven of asso¬
ciates are now ir, rail charged with arson of all
and conspiracy, and the names
other suspected members are in tbo pos-
session of the officers. Two of the mem
hers of the clan have turned states evi-
denee, appearing before the United States
district court at Atlanta, Ga., and on
Wednesday, when the whole history
workings of the organization were con¬
fessed.
A BROKEN LEVEE.
PANIC-STRICKEN PEOPLE FLEEING FO»
THEIR LIVES.
The levee broke at* Snppir gt » Hoop
sixty miles above Arkansas City, Ark., at
J o’clock Monday feet afternoon* T‘i<i St
crevasse was forty wide and it
widening at the time of the last report J
received. The break occurred at a pla« e
where the levee was largely built of sail i
The water backed a foot and a half, h-
ing clear up to the top of the leveo at
the time of the break. The break \o>
a complete surprise, there in being i.u
appearance of weakness the levee iq:
to within a few minutes of the hour wh i
it occurred. AVitliin twenty-four hou.j
the whole of the river front, from V i
crevasse to the Louisiana lino, will !
flooded. The whole of the Tensas bus .
of Louisiana, consisting ol four oi five
parishes, will unquestionably be sub¬
merged. The river is stricken. rising rapidly, and
the people are panic
A CURIOSITY.
SCIENTIFIC MEN BAFFLED BY THE CASH OR
A PARALYTIC.
An Augusta, Ga., dispatch section says: The
* cient iflc jn are now
deep in . inquiry . over the wonder of the
a J or ™ OT rr \ u mulatto, has <entur been >
*
—
discovered r i a few f miles Irom Augusta.
He is very illiterate, and has been pai i*
lyzcd for a number of years, yet, while in
a ministerial trance or services, profound reciting slumber, hymns engages of hi in
j
own composition, and singing them. Hr
repeats the teitt verbatim, as given in the
scriptures, giving the book and verse and
preaching an edifying sermon therefrom entirely
When the trance passes off, he is
unconscious of what ho has said or doi.
during his sleep. This is baffling the
of scientists.
THE RICE CROP.
REPORTS SHOWING THE SVUT.'.Y NOT/ OS
II AND.
Messrs. Dan Talmagc’s SonV of New
York, state that the count of rice in mills
and warehouses first instant, together with
estimated receipts of rough, reduced tc
cleaned, show forward supply: Carolina,
70,000 barrels; last year, 60,000 barrels;
Louisiana, 110.000 barrels; last year, 140 -
000 barrels. The residue of the crop is
mainly fair to good grades, and in fine-
condition, thus guaranteeing safe carriage
during summer months. Some 200,00b
bags of foreign were required last year in
addition to the amount above set forth,
and with equal demand import* will have
to be made airain this vpai*
A HEAVY SENTENCE.
AN EMBEZZLER GET* EIGHTEEN YEAR!
AND It 1 !NEI $120,422.
At Lebanon. OhA Saturday, Al. Gra
ham, former auditor of Warren county^
was .sentenced on hit plea of guilty to ae
indictment charging him with embezzling
the funds of the • canty to the amount
of $63,211. The - curt sentenced him t«
be imprisoned ic 'he penitentiary of $120 to
eighteea rears, and to pay a line -
432 .