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TB8 crawfonl Gunny flerali PUBLISHED WEEKLY. W. J. McAFEE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM. Official Organ of Crawford County. KXOXVILEE, GEORGIA. Entered at the postoffice at Knoxville, Ga., as second-class matter. Comparative Tax Returns. Through the courtesy of Col. W. P. Blasingame, of our town, we publish the following comparative statements of tax returns for the years, 1884 and 1889. The returns were made by twenty-five repre¬ sentative citizens of Crawford county selected at random and not with any special reference to circumstances attend¬ ing the same: Valuation of property re¬ turned in 1884, $40,789.00; same prop erty returned iu 1889, valued at $49,998. 00; showing an increase of $3,209.00; showiog an average increase of $-128.30. ROAD RUNNERS AND SNAKES. A Rattler is Surrounded by a Wall of Cactus and Goaded to Death. There is a strange bird of the California, pheasant family, peculiar to Southern Arizona and Mexico, whose habits have long been a puzzle to naturalists, and has furnished much amusement and interest to sportsmen in these localities. The name of this bird is the road runner. It is built somewhat like an English pheasant, being of a dull brownish color, and having long, tail feathers and short, thick legs. It derives its name, no doubt, from its ability to get over ground at a rapid rate, as well as from the fact that ii is more frequently seen on the country roads than anywhere else. It is a very wary bird, and is seen but seldom, It rarely takes fiight when approached, but will run along the ground with its head down, at a remarkable rate of speed. This peculiar bird appears to be an in¬ veterate enemy of rattlesnakes, which abound in great numbers iu the localities before mentioned. It is said that the birds first kill and then eat the snakes, but of this latter fact I am not certain! Their methods of killing the snakes are «t once peculiar and ingenious, and will best be illustrated l>y the following inci¬ dent :— Some three years since Arizona. I was camping had on the Gila River in I ae- oompanied a prospecting party, who had gone,to this region in search of silver and copper, which were said to be abundant in this section. I was seated one day at noon near a number of cactus plants, and getting such shelter from the noonday sun as a small cluster of manzauita bushes would afford. I had not been seated long when I observed lying asleep about twenty yards Seizing off a large stick, rattlesnake. I about make a was to an attack on the sleeping reptile, when 1 noticed a pair of large brown birds standing under a stump of bushes, and apparently watching the rattler with great interest. As they had not seen me I resolved to keep ouict and \yateb for developments. I knew the birds were road runners, and, having heard that they never let a rattler escape when once they saw one, I was anxious to see how rt was done. One of the birds cautiously approached that the the snake, as if to satisfy itself reptile was really asleep. The bird then walked deliberately up to a small cactus plant and broke off a piece of the thorny substance, which it carefully laid down about a foot away from the snake. Piece by piece followed until the snake was fairly walled in by a circle of thorns, from which it would have been very hard for the snake to have escaped without* serious injury. The next movement on the part of th* birds was even more curious than before. The snake had remained asleep all this time, but at this jniint one of the birds, uttering a sharp note, jumped into the ring, gave the reptile a sharp nip with its beak, and was out again almost lie for* bis snakeship was aware of what had happened. coil itself for spring the first To a was act of the serpent, aud, when one of the birds approached within what appeared sharp, to be striking distance, there was u quick dart forward. As quick as a flash the bird was out of harm's way, and equally sudden was the movement of tlic other bird, which seized the snake from the rear before it could again assume ■ coil. Every time the snake launched out at the birds it was pricked by the thorns, until it became perfectly frantic with rage. smarting under the pain in¬ At last, birds, flicted and unable to reach the which kept jumping in aud out of the ring with lightning-like rapidity, the rattler turned aud bit itself again and again. At this the birds seemed to suspend operations, and very soon the body of the snake began to swell, its movements became slower and slower and soon ceased altogether. The snake was dead. What might have further happened of I am unable to say, as just at this stage the proceedings I jumped to my feet aud thereby attracted the attention of the birds, who scampered off and were soon lost to sight. The snake was a large one be¬ of its kind, and had thirteen rattles, sides the “button ” at the end. When J told them in camp what had happened, I was informed that this was by no means an uncommon occurrence, aud that after killing the snakes, the birds invariably made a meal of their victims. FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES. NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS. WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA¬ TION, NOTES, ETC. The Alliance is a business institution and should be used in a business way. * The Alliance is going through a erys- talizing process just now and they can in but be fathful to their vows they will the end come out on top. * * * “Pass The Arkansas Economist says: the sub-treasury bill and the work of the speculator is at an end. There will be no more corners on farm products. * * * direct¬ The Thomaston Times says the ors of the Alliance store have decided to establish a fruit canning factory at that place, and that work will be commenced at once. We now have twenty-eight states and territories organized in our estimated grand union, north and south, with an million.— Weekly mem¬ bership of nearly three Toiler. * * from the Farmers should stay away losu agents. They charge you about 20 per cent on the money you borrow, be¬ sides making you give a mortgage on your home. * * Alliances and There are 136 County with about 2,310 county sub-Alliances, a total membership of about 65,000 males aud 20,000 females in the state of Geor¬ gia .—Southern Alliance Farmer. * if if. and At Deepwater, Mo., the Farmers Laborers’ Union and the Knights of La¬ bor united on a city ticket and placed it in the field; the result was the election of their mayor, police judge, marshal, and three-fourths of the city council. * * * The Alliance warehouse at Griffin, Ga., has received nearly twenty thousand bale9 of cotton this season. It has $4,500 in bank, aud has declared a dividend of for¬ ty-five cents per bale, which amount goes to the members of the Alliance. * * sk Alliance It is said that the Farmers’ has saved the farmers of America $5,000,- 000 in twine, $2,500,000on bagging, and it is claimed that through the operations of the Alliance Exchange discounts have been secured that will make the amount saved by farmers $10,000, annually. * if ik There is no reason on earth why the re¬ tail merchants and all honorable business men should not join the producers and laborers in their demands for relief. The merchant depends upon the patronage of the farmer and laborer, and whatever tends to impoverish his patrons will in the long run impoverish him also. Yet the dealers are regarding the efforts of the producers with little favor. In fact they are endeavoring to discourage them in their demands for justice. This is al¬ together unwise.— Ex. * if sfc The National Alliance (Houston, Tex.), organ of the Colored Alliance, prints de¬ a communication from South Carolina scribing the good work of the colored order: I know that I don’t overstate the facts when I declare that the Alliance has been more to these people than a grand second emancipation. Of course much remains yet to be done. We must stick together; we must pay our dues and fees. We have now in this State nearly still one thousand organized Alliances, and the cause rolls forward. I am satisfied that the Alliance is the harbinger of Christ’s grand coming. * if i' Industrial The Farmers’ Alliance and Union does not desire to injure parties any polit¬ ical party, but if these old stick up their hydra-heads and thus impede our progress, they sw T elter in their own blood. The greater number of individ¬ ual adherents to each party is right in their heart, but when the policies and platforiqs of their respective parties are dictated by such leaders as are now at their heads, they prove a means of fur¬ thering the schemes of trusts, monopo¬ lies, bankers, railroads abd speculators. Make your party be light and do right or else leave it at the feet of its unholy gods and idols .—Farmers and Laborers Union Journal. if if the We see from our exchanges that J^irmers’ Alliance are starting the up enter¬ South prises of every kind all over for the benefit of their members. This is as it should be. The influence of this great order is beginning to be strongly the felt by that class who seemed to think farmer their especial prey and who laughed in their sleeve when it was first started,*and before the end of 1890 they will be wailing because they can no longer fleece him by “time prices,” usurious in¬ terest, etc. God speed the day wnen trie farming class shall be entirely free from such thralldom .—Talbotton New Era. * • if if knowl¬ A case has recently come to our edge where an Alliance made a surprise party and relieved a brother who w as in need, doing it in a kindly way that brought with it no sense of humiliation. This is right. The Alliance should be a real brotherhood in which kindly acts as well as feelings should have fu.l and free expression, and where none should be permitted to fall by the way. The man who is helped is not by any means the only one benefitted, for it is not a mere sentiment, but a fact, that “it is better to give than to receive, As the feeling of brotherhood grows, this mutual help- fullness will become a prominent feature of the Alliance. —Nebraska Farmer. * entered * perilous The country has oh times. The agricultural interests are tnreatened with bankruptcy and ruin. The pow r er of money to oppress has, through the manipulations of selfish men and the treachery of your public it servants, be reached the point where must checked. Fortunately for the country the people have been aroused to an ap¬ preciation of the alarming situation. Oui hope is based on their patriotism themselves and manhood. They must the nerve situation, and ud to the demands of whose live? elect men to represent them and records entitle them to confidence. Such and only such should be elected to our Legislature and to Congress .—Tht Proaressive Farmer, (Raleigh, N. C. A dispatch of Thursday from Wash¬ ington, D. C., says Mr. Clements has ad¬ dressed a letter to the Floyd county, questions Ga , Alliance in reply to certain formulated by that organization, in which he declares that he is in full sympathy with their demand, except those which suggest government control of railroads and telegraph lines and the scheme of sub-treasuries. He objects to these be¬ cause of the extraordinary expense that they would entail, and because they would require the employment of thous¬ ands of partisans whose efforts would be directed more in behalf of the political success of the administration in which they were employed rather than for the promotion of the business with which they might be charged. EIGHT DROWNED. THB TERRIBLE FATE OF A PARTY OP EXCURSIONISTS. A dispatch from Fall River,Mass.,sayss One of the saddest and most heart-rend¬ ing accidents which has occurred in this city in years took place on Watuppa lake about 12:15 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. A party of twelve persons, among them two women and five children, hired a boat at the pond aud went out rowing. and There was a strong wind blowing the water was ruffled. The boat into which the party embarked was a common flat- tomed one, the seating capacity was eight and it was too small to accommodate so many people. Theparty was observed rowing to work their way toward shore. This was difficult work, as the water was rough and strong and the rowers inexpe¬ rienced. When the boat load of pleasure seekers was within twenty feet of the shore, one of the children rocked the boat, and, without a moment’s warning, it capsized. Heart-rending cries Bullock, rent the air, which were heard by iireman of the pumping station, and James Laffer¬ ty, but they were unable to render as¬ sistance. In the meantime the women were strangling in the water. Three or four parties on shore called to them to cling to the boat, but their failing strength was unequal to the task, and the women and children sank out of sight. Four of the parties had struck out for the shore and succeeded in reaching it in an exhausted condition. The following recovered were drowned, their bodies being aged50; later in the day: Samuel Wittles, Mrs. Wittles, aged 45; Henry Wittles, aged 10, Samuel Wittles, jr., aged 12; Levina Buckley, aged 35; Fred Buckley, aged 3; Willie Buckley, aged 8; Willie turner, aged 9. TRADE REVIEW. DUN & CO. ’s REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 24TH. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review ol trade says: Speculation in some lines is active. The volume of legitimate busi¬ this ness is greater than it has been at season in any previous year. Money is comparatively easy and commercial credit undisturbed. The volume of business at New York has been swelled by heavy speculation, and at Boston sales of stock are three times those of last year. But bank clearings at Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago are twenty-nine while the per cent higher than all other a year points ago, outside of aggre¬ New gate at York is twenty-five per cent above last year. Railroad earnings for May show an increase of fifteen per cent, not¬ withstanding the heavy catting of rates. Labor strikes are nowhere mentioned as causing disturbances in trade. The great iron industries also look better. The cotton market is supported Nothing by the fa¬ strong tone of good trade. vorable can be reported of the woolen trade, except that makers are still buying, with the hope that a chauge at tariff may lessen foreign competition. Wheat has been strong, rising two cents with sales of 33,000,000 bushels at New York, and reports continue fair. Corn has declined nearly a cent, and oats have risen as much. Pork products are all a shade lower, and coffee is un¬ changed. But oil has risen over 5 cents and cotton 7-16; selling at 12§ over mid¬ dling uplands, recorded sales for the week reaching 575,000 bales. In general week the prices of products are lower than a ago, and will naturally decline as the new crop approaches. failures of the week number, Business for the United States, 190; Canada, 33; total, 222, against 212 last week. BONDS WANTED TO AID CHICAGO IN CONDUCTING THE GREAT WORLD'S EXPOSITION. The board of directors of the World's Fair have adopted a resolution special requesting Governor Fifer to call a meeting of the Illiuois legislature for July 1st to cons der submitting to popular vote at the coming November election a proposi¬ tion to amend the State Constitution sc as to authorize the city of Chicago to issue not exceeding $5,000,000 bonds in aid of the world's exposition. w. p: AI.LEN. T. H. WRIGHT. WRIGHT & ALLEN, -DEALERS IN- Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats, Shoes, HARDWARE AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES. We can furnish you with High Grade Fertilizers, the best on the market. Try them. Best quality Corn, Hay, Oats, Bran. Our stock of Ladies’ Goods is complete, and we extend a cordial invitation to call and inspect same, You will be pleused with what we have show CRAWFORD SHERIFF’S SALES. p EORGIA— Crawford County.— IJJames A. Moore and John I. Cham¬ pion, executors of James Roberts, de¬ ceased, have applied to me for letters of dismission from their executorship. Un- t ss good objections are filed, I will graut them letters dismissory on the first Monday in June, 1890. Witness my hand officially this the 4th day of Match, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT, Ordinary. G EORGIA— Crawford Cook t y.— W. K. Eubanks Executor of Eligah Eubanks, deceased, has in due form ap¬ plied to me for letters of dismission from his executorship. Unless good objec¬ tions thereto are filed, I will grant to said W. K. Eubanks such letters dismissory on the 1st Monday in June, 1890. Witness my hand officially. WRIGHT, O. P. Ordinary. G EORGIA— Crawford County. —W. M. Taylor, administrator of estate of ltufus Carter, deceased, has applied for letters dismissory from the administration of said estate, and such letters will be granted on the first Monday in May next, unless good objections are filed. Witness my hand officially, this January 27th, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT, jan 31-13 Ordinary. G EORGIA— Crawford County. —A. 0. Sanders and James M. Sanders, executors of the will ofThos. J. Sanders, deceased, have applied to me for letters dismissory from their executorship; therefore all persons concerned are here¬ by required to show cause, if any they have, on the first Monday in May next, why such letters should not be granted. Witness my hand officially, January 27th, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT, Jan. 31—13t Ordinary. G EORGIA— Crawford County. —H. M. Burnett, administrator on estate of Mrs. Martha Stembridge, deceased, has applied to me for letters of dismis¬ sion from the administration of said es¬ tate, and same will be granted on good the first Monday in July next, unless objections are filed. Witness my hand officially this April 1st, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT, Ordinary. G EORGIA— Crawford County. —W. J. Slocumb, as administrator of the estate of S. P. Williamson, deceased, has applied for letters of dismission from said trust. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned to show cause, if any they have, within the time prescribed by law why said application should not be granted. hand officially this, the Witness my 31st day of March, 1890. WRIGHT, O. P. Ordinary. G EORGIA,— Crawford County. Appraisers appointed to assign and set apart a year’s support to Mrs. A. Y. Han¬ cock, from the estate of G. S. Hancock, deceased, have made their return: Said return will be made the judgment of the Court of Ordinary of said county on the first Monday in June next, unless hand, good objections are filed. Witness my officially this April the 28th, 1890. O. P. Wright, Ordinary. NOTICE. I will be at the following places for re¬ viving tax returns for the present year, * 1890: Tabors, 26th of May. Rogers, 27th of May. Sowells, 28th of 3Iay. Sandy Point, 29th of May. Knoxville, 10th. 17th and 31st of May. ' Webbs 2d of June. Hammocks, 3d of June. Beasleys, 4th of June. This is the last call. R. H. Knight. R. T. R. April 28th. 1890. SEND US YOUR WORK. SATISFACTIQ5 GUARANTEED, PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R. D. Smith. W. P. Blasingame. SMITH & BLASINGAME, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Knoxville, Ca. Prompt and faithful attention given to all business entrusted to their care. MOSEY CHEAP AMD EASY. (O) If you want CHEAP AND QUICK MONEY, on easy and liberal terms, you can get it by calling on W. P. BLASINGAME, Attorney at Law, Knoxville, Ga. DR.W.F. BLASINGAME DENTIST, Knoxville, - - Georgia. I respectfully tender my services in the Practice of Dentistry to the citizens of Knoxville and surrounding countiy, and will spare no effort to secure satisfaction. my patrons competent work and perfect 2^"Charges Reasonable. KNOXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SPRING TERM. Opens January 13 Closes ... June 27 FAIL TERM. Opens...... .....September 1. Closes...... ......December 19. Rate of tuition for All Classes, $2 per month. A pro rata allowance will be made for Public Fund. Each pupil will be taught by the most modern methods. I cordially solicit your patronage. Fur¬ ther information will be cheerfully fur¬ nished by C. C. POWER, I Principal. t " THE HARRIS HOUSE, KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA. Always open to public patronage. We tr y t° please our guests, Comfortable Room and good Fare. Free hack to and f rom j 1 Z, T. HARRIS, Proprietor. floored the dancers. the effects of an earthquake SHOCK IN MONTANA. A dispatch from Billings, Mont., says: : At an early hour Friday evening ’a verv severe earthquake shock'was felt all over 1 this county. There were two separate visitations. The inhabitants were con- riderably alarmed, but the disturbance "-as not shaken repeated. Two brick houses were down and considerable glass shattered. A dance was in progress at the hotel. The severeity of the shock floored several dancers and left the party fright. 1 J in