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i c % jforfc V Ouunti) W.: 4 W ijcritn*. * W. J. WIcAFEE, * Editor «nd Prop. > CRAWFORD COUNTY CONFEDER¬ ATE VETERANS ASSOCIATION. ORGANIZATION ON SATURDAY LAST. Knoxville. Ga., April IS*, 1800. At a call meeting of the Crawford County Confederate Veterans, for the purpose of a permanent organization of a Confederate Veterans Association, on last Saturday, in Knoxville, the organization was effected w ith the following named officers: Dr. J. N. Smith, President pro. tern. C. G. Power, Secretary, pro. tern. Dr* After a few words of explanation In- Smith of the purpose of the meeting, the same proceeded to permanent organi¬ zation. Futrell made permanent Mr. L. C. was President, C'apt. W. J. Dent, Vice-Presi¬ dent, and Mr. A. J. Danielly. Secretary. Dr. Smith then addressed the meeting, giving the reasons why the old veterans should perpetuate the memory of the fallen heroes of the lost cause, in which he pictured very clearly the sufferings and privations of the soldiers in that dire con¬ flict, and the devotion and labors of the Southern women. Foliowng is a list of the names of the Association: I, . C. Futrell, 37th Georgia. 10th W. J. Dent, 45th Georgia, and C< >nfederate Cavalry. A. J. Danielly, 45tli Georgia, and 10th Confederate Cavalry. 45th. J. N. Smith, 3rd Regiment, It. II. Knight, 1st Regiment, 45th. J. V. Wilder, 1st Regiment, 45th. J. S. Spillers, 1st Regiment, Regiment, 45th. .1. S. Blasingame, 1st 54th. J. W. Blasingame, 1st Regiment, 54th. J. E. Harris, 0th Regiment, 54th. M. F. Perry, Abbe’s Battery and Fin- nigan’s Brigade. W. 11. Visage, Brigade 54th. •Tosiah Smith, Regiment Troops. 00th. 11. M. Burnett, State John I. Champion, 1st Georgia Reg¬ ulars. II. F. Arnold, 63d Regulars. D. C. Hicks, 3d Georgia State Troops. J. A. Moore, 45th Georgia State Troops. T. N. Jackson, 37th Georgia and 0th Georgia State Troops. Georgia and 3d Thos. A twater, 13th Georgia Battalion. Bond. R. M. John A. Fryar, 45tli Georgia. John Jones, 44th Georgia. John McGee. T. F. Mathews, 6th Georgia Georgia. Z. T. Harris, 3d State (Taw’ford Troops All ox-Confcdcrate soldiers of county who were not present at the meet¬ ing, and who desire to become members <>f nish the Association, are requested to fur¬ their II. M. Burnett, of Knoxville, with address and their names will be placed on the roll. A proposition was made by Dr. Smith to have all veterans go up to Atlanta on the 26th instant to participate in the dec¬ oration of the Confederate graves. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. L. C. Futrell, President.. V J. Danielly, Secretary. Items From Swifton. Swifton, Upson Co., Ga., April 15, ’90. We are having nice weather for plant¬ ing cotton seed. Everybody is ou the drive to get through planting. Some of my don't neighbors have nearly finished. I know when I will get cloue plant¬ ing. 1 have forty acres streaked off and a steer to plow it with. You know I must get along slow'. But I have one consolation, I will get done planting fome time this Summer. It’s all in life. P don't get anything but my victuals and ■iothes any way. Air. G. T. Holloman Bias about two hundred acres up and Booking Btands finely. We all have excellent of corn. The oat crop has im ■Roved considerably. ■ Mr. J. T. Knight, our merchant, has a Bull stock of Spring goods and is doing ^ Jmsiness splendid maD, business. and is great Mr. Knight help to is this a a -'immunity meeting in many ways—has prayer once a week. Our silverware man, Mr. C. E. W., of fbekory Grove, was up in our community me other day with his stock of silver- *aro, offering to barter for anything from ‘billy goat up to a mule. I think Mr. IV • ought to tackle Dr. Smith. He has 1 number of goats that seem to think Pty are too much crowded at home, and ■ < L° n ^Ornate terms with the neighbors. Miss Gussie Lesuer has a fine school at Xnibition jkory Grove. the last She of expects this month, to have and an all re 1 ’or anticipating Alliance a nice time. is progressing ia this ommunity. Bostic Itcad the card of Mr. S. B. Causey in ds issue of the Herald. CRA3VFORD CO.. GA., THURSDAY. APRIL 24,1890. From Oar Robley Correspondent. Robley, Ga., April 19, 1893. The fruit has not all been killed in this section, as was once feared, and without any more freezes we will be spared a very light crop. Mr. George Mathews, of Thomaston, several has been in the community for days past, but is now on a visit to Ma¬ con, accompanied by Mr. W. A. Felts of this place. Since my last communication nothing has transpired that will be of interest to the public, and there is so little news to be obtained that I almost refrain from writing at all. 1 am glad to state that our friend, Wesley Felts, has sufficiently recovered from his recent illness to be among us again, and in a short time he will be en- abled to once more resume the duties of a Mrs. Lizzie Pierson, of Monroe with county, rela- spent several days of this week lives here. She has just recovered from a severe illness, and her many friends will he glad to learn that she is conva- lesciug. Mr. F. M. Felts lias] resigned yesterday the post- mastership at Robley, anti on turned the office over to his successor, Mr. H,*D. Fincher. Mr. Felts has held the position for several years, and the patrons of the office tender him their thanks for the faithful discharge of his official duties. Most of the farmers are busily engaged in cotton planting or work per¬ taining in that direction, and in a short time the entire crop will have been planted. The early planted seed are coming up, but remembering the fate of those who boasted of early garden the veget ¬ ables, there is but little talk on sub¬ ject. The Oak Grove Singing Society will meet with the people of Musella, at the school house near that place, next fourth Sunday afternoon, April 27th. As usual, the yomig will probably glad turn out en mass, and we w r ould be to see a good attendance of the older people as well. Better order would be maintained in their presence, and would be much more encouraging to those engaged in singing who wish to render instructive the evening both entertaining and to all who attend. Plow Boy. LOCAL LACONICS. Mr. A. T. Simerly had the misfortune to lose one of his best oxen a few days ago. Our readers will find announcement from Mr. Moody in the Herald for this week. Mrs. Z. T. Harris, who .has been quite unwell for some time, is much improved, and we trust will soon enjoy restoration to perfect health. Mrs. James Eubanks, an elderly died lady- living in Sandy Point District, the past week of pneumonia, and was buried at Bethel Church on Sunday last. One of the children of Mr. and Mrs. R. II. Harris died of pneumonia and the the early part of the present week, re¬ mains were interred in the cemetery in Knoxville. Mrs. Ed. Dent, so wc arc informed, succeeded in capturing a rabbit a few days ago, without a dog, gun, or any other assistance, but simply because the rabbit failed to get up a sufficient rate of speed to keep out of the reach of his captor. Miss Lula McGee, daughter of Mr. Job 1). McGee, who is a pupil in the school at Knoxville, but has been absent for a short time on account of sickness, has returned to town and is again with her classmates. This is Miss Lula s second year in the school at this place. She is making her home here with the family of Mr. J. W. Jack. KNOXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. # Roll of Honor. Wilson Wright, Emmie Hammett, Lillias Jack, Lena Andrews, Belle Harris, Minnie Hicks, Mary Allen, Frankie Wright, Kellie Allen. Lizzie Bryant. Minnie Slocumb, Celesta Culverhouse Lizzie Jones, Homer Grace, Robert Champion. Hattie B. Hicks. Willie Smith, Arthur Moore, Horace Andrews, Derwood Sanders, Clara Long. For Tax Collector. 1 respectfully announce myself to the citizens of Crawford county as a candi¬ date for the office of Tax Collector, sub¬ ject toilemocratic nomination. S. B. Causey Hickory Grove Happenings. Hickory Grove, Ga., April 17,’90. Mr. J. C. Fincher went to Atlanta this week. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Humph were in the viHe on 12th inst. Mrs. J. W. Stroud was in town to-day on her way to see her sick mother. The farmers are about done planting cotton and corn and would like to see s ° rac raiu to "P the seed - Miss Gussie Leseur is Friday preparing to have an exhibition the last night in this month, which will be 35th. All are respectfully invited to.attend. Ask Col. W. P. Blasingame and who lost h er watch last Sunday, if lie don’t think some young man was the cause of it—but don’t tell him I said anything about it. Miss Lizzie Long, of Walker's Chapel, vras in the Burgh Sunday. Miss Emma Brown, of Elam, was also here, and there were several boys right glad they were here, too. Gardens are beginning to wear a spring ] o0 k, and chickens are coming on, chicken so it won't be long before we can eat pies, and have plenty of vegetables to go with them, and such as that helps to make out a good dinner, I hear that Mr. James Cody intends go¬ ing into the show business, if he can suc¬ ceed in employing three certain individ¬ uals, whom lie regards are he worth employs any man's quarter to see. If them he will likely show in Kuoxvillc on 21st nexs June. Mr. C. G. llilsman was down to “our store” to-day, and says ('ulloden is boom¬ ing—glad to hear our sister town is on the rise. But would also be glad if the Macon & Alabama Railroad would pass through Knoxville and here, then our Crawford county towns could boom. We are having a gpod deal of sickness just now; Mr. L. Mr. T.*)Vellons T. Wellons has a has very sick daughter, and M»s. J. J. A. J. Wellons a very sick son, is quite sick, Mr. Rufus White has a sick sou, and Mrs. Wm. Hayes is also sick— all in our neighborhood. I am in hopes they will soon be restored to health. We had a Sunday-school organized here last Sunday evening. Mr. Joe Bank¬ ston, sr., Supt , Miss Lucy Bankston, Chorister, Mrs. M. V. Smith, Miss Gussie Lesner and Miss Emma Brown teachers; Dr. J. N. Smith takes charge of the Bible class. Rev. Mr. Allison and Col. W. P. Blasingame, of your town, gave them a good talk. Hunscy Appling, col'd., killed I lie “boss'’ aligator on Flint River last week. 1 have been informed that his “gator- ship” weighed 450 pounds and measured 14 feet long; had in his stomach when killed several hog hoofs, set of hooks, Hint rocks, and part of an old flint and steel shot-gun. No doubt the “gator" had ate the owner of that gun long who ago —probably it was some poor Indian came in contact with the “gator” long before the Pale Face ever trod this section of country. Who knows? Zkkk. dots from spring creek. We are having beautiful weather now, real spring weather. After a long ride our worthy tax re¬ Mr. R. II. Knight, has made one round receiving tax returns, and reports good results. Mrs. E. P. McKinney and Miss Dora Knight, went fishing one day last week, but the wind was blowing from the east and they did not catch any fish. Miss Sallie Mathews, of Macon, is vis¬ iting her uncle, Mr. J. C. Wilder. Mr. Methkims preached a good sermon Beaver Dam Sunday. Messrs. Bob Wilder, James Bryce, Ol¬ Saunders,JHenry Knight, Ed McKin¬ ney, Philip McCarty and John Wilder fishing out on Flint river Monday caught three fish. [The wind must have been blowing from the east again.— Ed. ] Now, that was doing well, wasn’t it? Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Champion visited J. C. Wilder Sunday. Dithy. For Ta:t Collector. I take this method of announcing my¬ as a candidate for Tax Collector of Crawford county, subject to Democratic nomination. The support of my friends and the general public will be duly ap¬ preciated. Very Respectfully, James M. Moody. The National Starch Manufacturing Com¬ pany Kentucky, was organised with recently capital under of $10,000,COQ. the laws of a It is composed of all nineteen the principal large starch firms, which includes starch cora- janiee in the country with two exception*. ITEMS FROM WARRIOR. Messrs. 31. II. 3IcElmurray aud Tom Holloman went fishing Wednesday night and caught fifty pounds of fish. Mr. Coughman has finished his rail¬ road contract in the Warrior district. 3Ir. James the man who is building the t restles, has three of them completed. Kathiline Winn, who was raised in the Warrior, but has been living two miles this.side of 31acon, died there recently. She was 75 years of age, and was the wife of Bob Winn. She left two sons, Robert and Charlie Winn. On Dick Hamlin's plantation, during that strong wind through the Warrior, James Hall’s buggy house was blown down and his buggy broken to pieces. I)r. Bopner’s kitchen was blown down and his stove badly broken. Dr. Bonner is a good doctor, but he could not cure that stove. At another place Sog Thomas went out to the smokehouse to call his hands. lie was using crutches, and the wind blew a piece of timber on his good ankle and knocked him down, and after¬ ward blew some timber ou him and cut his head very badly, lie said it was so dark lie could not see, and had to lie there until the storm was over. It took a well curb up and blew it away. The Warrior high school has sent the exercises in to Prof. Abbott and Mr. B.M. Zettler to be forwarded to Columbus. The pupils and patrons of the school have a high opinion of the teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Parrott. They have sixty scholars. They are to give one week’s vacation the first of May, as all the white teachers are to have a teachers’ meeting in Columbus, and the colored teachers in Americus. There are thirty pupils attending the Hamlin school, while the Hart school in Hazard district, of which Henry Conner V principal, numbers forty. The Ilazzard High school is taught by Charles Amer- son and Miss Blanche Ellis, they have 65 pupils. The colored school at Pleasant Grove taught by N. B. Cornelius, there being in attendance 65 scholars. The teachers of the schools are well liked and popular among the children aud patrons. Warrior. Clark's Mills Clippings. Two or three of our citizens have each a rifle for which they claim unusual shooting qualities. Mr. 3Y r . J. Champion lias one that shoots so far that he has to salt his cartridges to keep the game front spoiling before he can get to it. But 31 r. R. II. Knight has one that is ahead of Mr. Champion's. He went out hunt¬ ing one morning before breakfast and shot a rabbit, and when he came to pick it tip it was ready tor cooking, all except salt. Don't you think they ought to go hunting together? this? Who can beat Nellie. Water as an Explosive. Water as an extinguisher of the flames of blasts in mines has been applied in a novel manner, namely, as a devised powdered solid, in a form of explosive This sab-fence, by a chemist in Cologne. of certain called grisonite, with consists which contain ex¬ plosive agents like carbonate of water soda and sul¬ ing salts, incorporated. phate of magnesia are Grisonite, with 50 per cent, of carbonate of soda, contains thirty per cent, of wa¬ in ter, and, with sulphate of magnesia like proportion, twenty-five experiments per cent. which It is also ascertained, by have been made under the most danger¬ ous conditions, that the flames arc quenched, and that the material is both ?afe and efficient. The Earth From a Distance. If it were possible to rise above the at¬ mosphere which surrounds the earth, we should see nothing but an intense and sharply defined ball of fire, while every¬ thing else would could be wrapped difference in total dark¬ of ness. There be no light without an atmosphere or but some if similar medium for it to act upon, the air around us extended to a height of 700 miles, the rays of the sun could not penetrate it, and we should be left in darkness. At the depth of 700 feet in the ocean the light ceases altogether, one half of the light being absorbed in pass¬ ing through seven feet of the purest water. HANDS OKK. Alpine Tourist (to Swiss dairymaid)— it I say, my pretty maid, how far is from here down into the valley? you'll “ If you don’t stop on the way be there in a couple of hours.” “ And suppose I stop with you a bit?” “Then you’ll get wherever you’re going quicker.” THE TREACHEROUS SCSPENDER. Jennie — Pshaw ! There goes my bouquet again. Have you a pin? than Charlie—Yes, but I need it more vou do.—[Epoch. VOL. I. NO. 10 A Diamond Potato Fieia. Farmer Bowles, of Easthampton, L» J., is grateful for an open winter. Ha had a large mortgage about ripe, and was wondering how he could raise the money to pay it off, as it could nt longer be renewed, To think the bet- ter he went ihto his cellar and sorted his potatoes, some of them already sprouting, under the impression that it was spring instead of winter. While cutting out one of these sprouts his knife glanced from a glass-like sub¬ stance, which the gaol farmer dug out in a leisurely way and put in his pocket without the flourishes he would have made had he known it was a diamond. He found it out later when he went to Brooklyn on business. He displayed the stone to a merchant, who at one pronounced it a diamond of the first water, and offered to go with him to a jeweller’s for satisfaction. They went, and the merchant’s opinion \va3 corrob¬ orated with an offer of $2000 cash for the jewel. The farmer did not accept the offer, hardly knowing what to do under the circumstances. If he could only know how the diamond got into ihc potato he would feci better about it. Not know¬ ing but the rest of the potatoes were equally as rich lie went home and picked over the lot, but without fur. thcr results. It is thought that some burglar bid tin diamond in the field and tbc pota- to appropriated it. Or some of the Meadow Brook Hunt people sometime; dash across fields to tho disgust of the farmers. Farmer Bowles says he will never again drive them off his land, in he hope that his next potato crop will re equally enriched. Not Good for Shingles. Parson Brown, who loves a joke, though it Le at his own expense, is fond of relating his experience in circulating a subscription paper for the purpose of raising funds to shingle a chit ch. Among others he called on a merchant who was a liberal man where the object is psaiseworthy. In the present in¬ stance he subscribed |5. Shortly after¬ ward the parson called to collect the amount, but the merchant, having ha l occasion to pay out all his money that lay, informed the clergyman of the fact and invited him to call again. This did not exactly accord with the parson’s views. Looking around the store he discovered a kit of mackerel which he thought might be easily con¬ verted into cash. “How much for mackerel?" he asked. “Fjvo dollars a kit,” replied the mer¬ chant. “Well, if you have no objection I i take that kit for your subserttion. y y “All right, parson,” said the mer- chant, heartily, ‘ •You’re welcome to anything in mj store to tbc amount of $5, but though mackerel are famous for makin ; a man dry, I wouldn’t thinglc. my church wth them if I were you. ”— Lew h ton (Me.) Journal. A Confederate Shoe. An interesting relic of the war is on exhibition in the store of a shoe dealer in Church street. It is a shoe weighing two pounds, one of a pair worn by a confederate at the battle of John’s Isl. and, S. C. After his capture he ex¬ changed shoes with a private ot the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth New York. The latter wore them for a while and brought them to Kingston, N. Y., in 1864. Tbc shoe is of rude construction, having rawhide uppers, with a hard wood sole half an inch thick, covered at the edges with a strip of wrought iron half an inch wide. Seven iron rivets fastened the sole and uppers together. The heel is of wood, and covered with a heavy iron plate shaped like a horseshoe. This shoe was made in England for the use of the Confederate army, and is similar to those worn by miners there .—Neva York Triune.