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complain of poof crop..
£o„er, F Sanders. tl,e County School
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hool at Hebron. Miss Mattie
nrineipl. trill close with the pres¬
k.
Lie will be given at McEltnurray’s
j 21st of June. It will no
t ie enjoyable affair. .
prove a very
^ntfda/o/twl here during the wRh past friends week. and
es
desire to state to our readers that
, eRAU) will hereafter be issued on
instead of Thursday as hereto-
P
everal months, will enjoy a vacation
this week.
iurcfirs. of the Knoxville High
J E. Harris and J. C.
-
ea ch of them having two pupils m
[bool. principal of the
>j J Sawyer, Academy, iu this
Union county,
bong her friends iu Knoxville a
L-s ago.
learn that every member of Mr.
family, of W . Dis-
Eubanks’ arner
in Bibb county, have been quite
but are now' improving.
fie Clarke, a colored woman from
wer portion of the county, was tried
lor lunacy a few days ago and was
[ a fit subject for the asylum.
I Iso mother of Mr. Berry Champion
his daughter in-law, are said to
ly liined sick, and to their that serious recovery. doubts are
as
1 Knoxville Sunday school seems to
■taken on new life and is now in a
ly and is flourishing unusually good condition. _ at present. The
Kance
I ImdayschooljcelebrationTo h interest is being manifested in
be heldat
[rolence lespective church schools on the giving 14th of special June,
are
hion to vocal music, and it is prob-
Ihat there will be lively competition
Es part of the programme of exer-
Itre were three 'interments in the
Itery at Shiloh Church last week. A
I Branham, of Macon, was buried
l Monday evening; Mr. Reese, of Ma-
[Wednesday, Inlay. The latter and Mr. the Henry of Ross Mr.
fit was son
Boss, who lived iu the lower por-
of this county.
he family of Mr. J. \V. Blasingame
had the pleasure of a visit the past
fal (lays from who, although his father, 80 Mr. Powell of
bngame, I years
would hardly be accompanied regarded as past by his 50
U vears. He is
pier, rerombie Mr. and Wyatt Mrs. Blasingame, Malcom. They Mrs.
All residents of Walton county, Ga.
In. Stroud, mother of Messrs. M. D.
•J. W. Stroud, died at the residence
Li latter on Sunday last and was bur¬
in the cemetery here on the following
The remains of her daughter, Mrs. in-
pie fd in McCrary, which were ground formerly
the family burial at the
homestead, fed were on the same day re¬
here and placed in a grave beside
of her mother.
|r. rida J. four F. Andrews, five weeks who has been reached in
[xville or Saturday past,
Hanes, last evening. Mr.
■> Ipedonthe who accompanied relatives, him,
route to visit
I whom he will spend several days,
pi n" does not seem to have a very ex-
pl to opinion recommend of Florida, it and fleas, found but
f«»s, < centipedes, except mos-
snakes, etc. As a
pianent Lion Florida homes affords it is evident inducements that iu his
Itever. no
noxville high school.
Roll oi Honor.
|i [Lie Hammett, Smith, Celesta Lizzie Bryant, Culverhouse,
|B. ram Smith. McCrary, Ufa Jack,
Champion, Jr., Clara Long,
r 1, Emmie Hammett,
pur T. Moore, Dottie Smith,
pn Harris, Lula McGee,
frest Goodwin Lillias Jack,
in Hicks, Minnie Hicks,
•race Hie Alien, Andrews, Belle Harris.
nine Frankie Wright,
Mie Hicks, Jones, Minnie Avera,
Minnie Slocumb,
The Methodist Church.
r s Methodist Church building iu
noxville is sadly in need of repairs, it
r ’ een decided to begin work on the
pie at an early date. The matter has
pa placed iu the hands of a committee
Pasting toen: of the following named gen-
J. L. Hammett, Chairman ; J.
• b.asingame, C. B. Spillers, L. L.
JaDt and J. W. Jack. A more ener-
lc an d practical worker than Mr.
amraett could not, perhaps, have been
feted as chairman, and with the co-
•eratioa of the other members of the
n-mitree, we confidently expect to see
e won; accomplished. It is evident
at the community and others in
Uy with the undertaking 8 ym-
reu icr all needed are inclined
■demand that there assistance, as we
1 r * dollars of voluntarv are already three
i at ffou ! d offered, subscrip-
mittee , have and the
ky should hardlv gotten to work.
we not all regard it not only
Dnhv t prmIe S e to contribute to so
can a^ to n aid °-fe . the U good Letu3 work. aU what
FROM THE CENTRAL CITY.
Still Serving Uncle Sam—Macon’s Pros¬
perity—Culloden’s Fourth of July
Celebration—The Railroad—
Persona"
Macon, Ga., May 23, 1890.
Editor Herald: —Crawford has but
two representatives here now in Uncle
Sam’s court—N. J. Dent and myself, and
we have been here so long we are begin¬
ning to rub off some of our ■ countryfied
ways; for instance we don't tell every
man houdy that we meet on the street
and can pass a photographer’s sign with¬
out pointing at it. My friend Dent had
his good lady with him here last week,
and I noticed quite an improvement in
him, not in his punctuality, for that could
not be improved upon, but I mean his
general appearance; he showed no signs
of having slept in the jury box, and has
had the heels nailed back on his shoes;
he has learned to skip over the tiled floor
of the court room, w ithout being poked
in the short ribs with these ten feet pikes
in the hands of the deputies. It is amus¬
ing to see us thoughtlessly tip-toing
across the street in front of the court
house.
This court is now getting down to seri¬
ous business, especially it for certain crimi¬
nals. It has before now, one D. B.
Godard, who was saved from prison last
year through the mercy of the court, un¬
der his faithful promise never to expired do so
again, but before tw’elve months
he was caught in the same offense, and
in more aggravated jform than ever; vain for so
freedom wiil, or may shriek iu
him.
To say that Macon is on a boom is put¬
ting it very mildly. It is simply astound¬
ing to note the wonderful increase in the
price of city and suburban property in the
last few mouths, or years. It seems that
all a man has to do here is to stick his
money (if he has any) in dirt, and just sit
down and let it grow' and make him rich.
To the moneyless man the prospects here
are tantalizing. readers, and to
You can say to your
everybody else, that Culloden is arrang¬
ing for the grandest celebration and big¬
gest crowd she ever entertained. It will
be on the 4tli day of July next, and on
that day we propose to make our country
proud of us. Come and see if we don’t.
Judge Emory Speer will deliver us, on
that day, a national address, and I ven-
ture to say that Culloden has never had
such an eloquent warming up as she will
get on that day. Judge Speer and has no Cullo¬ su¬
perior in finished oratory, as
den is his birthplace and the home of his
childhood, ’twill give inspiration to his
fervid eloquence. A rare treat is in store
for the people of that section. More
anon.
I saw Mr. Sparks, president of the
Georgia Southern yesterday. He says
we will have passenger coaches running
to Culloden by or before the 15th of
June, and thinks there will be no trouble
in getting excursion rates to our 4th of
July celebration on his road.
I met here yesterdny one of Craw¬
ford’s substantial citizens, Mr. J. R.
Worsham. He informed me of the
death of our countyman, Mr. Ed Jordan.
He died at his home Tuesday night,after
a short illness. Mr. W. also spoke very
cheeringly of crop prospectsjin his neigh¬
borhood. Such reports come up from dif¬
ferent counties. It does seem that farm¬
ers are getting on vantage ground, don’t and
let us try and hold it. We w'ant a
boom, but steady growth and healthy
increase. Econemize in all things and
spare no labor till our crops are housed
or ready for market.
Col. R. D. Smith, Crawford's .leading
lawyer, v?os iu the city yesterday.
Uncle Leroy Hicks and lady and Mrs.
J. R. Hicks, came dowm on the train
this evening as far as Byron, and stopped
there with relatives. He is one of
Crawford’s old land marks.
Simplex.
FROM OUR ROBLEY CORRESPONDENT.
Good Crop Prospects—Busy Farmers—
Personals.
Robley, Ga,, May 24, 1890.
Mr. G. B. Mathews, of Macon, spent
a short time last week with his parents
here.
Mrs. Martha Miller, of Macon, is visit¬
ing her sister, .Mrs. F. M. Fetts, at this
place.
, Mr. N. E. Murray, of Houston county,
spent last Sunday with friends in these
parts.
Miss Mollie Wilson is now conducting
the school at this place in the absence of
her sister. Miss Ada, who is sick at her
home in Culloden.
Mrs. D. C. Wallace and Mrs. Lanra
Smith, of Houston county, spent several
days of the present week here with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moore.
It is with feelings of regret that I an¬
nounce the death of Mr. E. T. Jordan,
which occurred at his house, a few
miles from this place, on Tuesday
last. And in the presence of quite
a crowd of relatives and friends
on the day following his remains were
consigned to their last resting P lj cc m
the family burying ground at the home
Mr M Jortanw*°»to°’t Sy-three and peaceful ’’yeari
of aee and lived the respected quiet Jby all who
life of a farmer for
k new him. He had .been suffering
some time with heart disease and his
deith is attributed to that cause.
0ur community has been visited by
o-ood rains, and farming operations are
now being pushed to the utmost capacity.
The farmers are using all means availa¬
ble to finish chopping cotton and get their
crops worked out before the land again
becomes hard, The crop prospects are
very good in this section, although there
is much room for improvement, which we
hope will come as the season advances.
The gardens are now yielding their
luxuries to grace the bill of fare of our
people, who are working with renewed
hope of a bright future and an abundant
harvest, and to crown with success the
labors of all, as well as those following
the avocation of the Plow Boy.
HICKORY GROYE HAPPENINGS.
Hickory Grove, Ga., May 25, ’90.
I have been silent for some time on ac¬
count of seeing in some of your former
issues two corresondents from this place,
and I thought I w'ould wait and let him,
her, he, she or it give the news, but I see
they keep quiet,so I come again.
Miss Gussie Lesuer’s school continues to
be well attended.
Mr. James Parham and J. C. Fincher
have gone dear huuting to-day. I’ll tell
yon things are squally up here.
Mr. Robert Fincher is spending aw hile
with his mother's family at Hilsmaun’s.
Bob is always w elcome up here.
Miss Olka Dickey ani the Misses Clay
are visiting Miss L. Gertrude Worsham,
and all are as happy as they can be.
Mr. C. S. Fincher has gone over in
Taylor county to visit his best girl. We
look for him back in a couple of weeks,
if he don’t get poisoned.
The health of our community is very
good; no one at all sick, and our M. D.
now r is resting on his oars, dollar. wondering
where he can make his next
Several of the boys have been on the
sick list since Miss Emma Brown closed
her school at Elam. I guess the cause is
Miss Emma has gone to Fort Valley.
Our Sunday-school in this place seems
to be on the up-grade. Plenty of good
singers from Embry’s out last meeting,
viz: Miss Maggie Knight, Mr. J. T.
Knight, Mr. L. L. Watson, Mr. Wesley
Smith, and a host of others.
Gardens and chicken crop are also good,
and our good wives can get up a right re¬
spectable dinner, and you can wager your
last cent that we tillers of the soil appre¬
ciate such, and when we sit down to din¬
ner show our appreciation by the manner
in which we devour the good things of
this earth.
Colonel'George Harris,from your town,
passed through the “burgh” yesterday,
and from the way his three-minute pony
was hitting the road, one would tniuk
he was very sick and was after the doc¬
tor. I expect George did have the heart
ache. Come again, George, she is O. K.
Mr. Willie Blasingame, from that
goddess of corn, harvest and flowers,
Ceres, spent the r.ight in the “ville,” en
route to Taylor county., with the inten¬
tion, I think, of seeing the Goddess of
Beauty, for the purpose of maybe some
future day crowning her with an orange
flower as his devoted bride.
Farmers are avell up with their crops
in this section—very little grass. Corn
is looking well now, but very irregular
ou account of bud worms having been so
bad. Cotton is beginning to look up a
little. I see in some fields it is large
enough to begin to shade a little; in
fact, Mr. Charlie Bankston had blooms
on the 20th inst. Who can beat it?
Oats and wheat are looking much better
than we once thought they would ever
be, and bid fair for two-thirds of a
crop. Zeke.
MORAN’S MILL ITEMS.
The rains have been very favorable.
Mr. A. J. Ellis’ mules ran away Satur¬
day and tore one wheel to pieces.
We have had some pretty days this
week, and the farmers have made good
use of them, for they have killed quanti¬
ties of glass. Harvesting has begun.
Mr. 1). A. O’Neil was cutting oats last
Saturday. Mr. G. A. Braswell has a
very fine field of oats.
Now that the railroad is here the ques¬
tion with the people iu our immediate
section is where will the depot be located !
We all want a depot, but we think it
would suit the community best at Mr. \.
A. Allen’s, than any place on the line.
. there will
When the new road gets open
be four roads leading to this place. We
learn that track laying is in the neighbor¬
hood of Culloden. We see the trains go
up and down the track twice a day.
Testing Cocoanuts.
Far down on the East River front you
may see cocoanuts unloaded from the
small iron steamers plying , . , be¬
hold of
tween this port and the tropics. T hey
are brought up from the hold in stout
baskets and transferred to large coarse
bags. The cocoanut handler takes a nut
in each hand, cracks the two together,
counts them, and drops them into the
, When half a dozen men are liand-
S’ ^ this fashion, the crack-
t e nuts
^ process sounds like the click of very
" chips. The cracking is done
poker found
J ^t and if one » un-
js aside. The slightest
reveals a defect. When one of a
d'tetire the sound one is
retained and touched very quickly to the
aut that is substituted foi the one thro
away. The defective ones are gathered
up to be sold to small retailers for lmme-
iiate consumption. There are usually
three or four men on the pier munching
the meat of such cocoanuts as are too
badly damaged to be sold. New or
Sun.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRrEFED—DF, LIBERATIONS OVER MAT¬
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
In the house, on Friday, Mr. Flower, of
New York, introduced a bill subjecting
oleomargarine laws to the provisions Referred. of The the
of the several states.
house then weut into committee of the
whole, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the
chair, on the river and harbor bill. Mr.
Hitt, of Illinois, moved an amendment to
give the city of Galena, III., the right to
take up the work of harbor improvement
there dropped by the government and
complete it, providing that the city shall
then receive $100,000. Adopted. When
the paragraphs appropriating $500,000
for the construction of the Illinois and
Mississippi Mr. (Hennepin) canal made was the reached point
of Turner, of Georgia, rivers and
order that the committee on
harbors had no jurisdiction over canals,
lie said that on April 9th a commuuica-
tion from the secretary of war, transmit¬
ting the report on the survey of the ca¬
nal, was referred to the committee on riv¬
ers and harbors, and there might be a
question as to whether that reference
gave the committee jurisdiction. Pend¬
ing a decision, the committee rose, The
speaker appointed McMillin, of Tennes¬
see, as referee on the customs administra¬
tive bill, in place of Mr. Carlisle, ex¬
cused. The house then, at 5 o'clock, took
a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening ses¬
sion to be for the consideration of private
pension bills. consideration
In the senate, on Friday, bill
of the naval discussion appropriations participated was
resumed. The was
in by Messrs. Gorman, Call, Blair and
Hiscock. Pending discussion the silver
bill was, at 2 p. m., taken up as unfinish¬
ed business and laid aside informally.
The tariff bill was received from the house
and referred to the committee on finance.
Ten thousand copies w'ere ordered Stanford printed
for the use of the senate. Mr.
addressed the senate in advocacy of the
bill introduced by him some days ago,
providing for loans by the government conclusion on of
agricultural lands. At the
Mr. Stanford’s speech, upon his motion,
the bill was referred to the finance com¬
mittee. Mr. Pugh gave notice of his in¬
tention to speak on the silver bill when it
comes up. The naval appropriation bill
w as again taken up. Discussion was re¬
newed. going over questions of the pub¬
lic utility of navy-yards, of political given spin¬
dles to which their management has
rise, of coast defenses, and of the policy
of building up a strong navy. It was car¬
ried on by Messrs. Blair, Iliseock, Haw¬
ley and Dolph. A bill was reported calendar, by
Mr. Pasco, and placed on the
for the protection of actual settlers in
Florida on lands on which deposits of
phosphates have been discovered since the
entries were made. Mr. Faulkner gave
notice of amendment to the bill relating
to liquors imported into prohibitory shall be states,
providing that such liquors of con¬ the
sidered as incorporated as within a part the
common mass of property state
and subject to regulation, control and
taxation in the exercise of the state’s
powers. Mr. Call offered a resolution call¬
ing on the president for information as to
lauding of an armed force from the revenue
cutter McLane, at Cedar Keys, Fla., the
forcibly entry of houses and the pursuit
of citizens in the surrounding country
and asked for its adoption. The resolu¬
tion went over. After executive session
the senate adjourned. committee of the
The house went into
whole Saturday, Mr. Burrows in the chair,
on the river and harbor bill. The pending
question was the point of order against
the Hennepin canal warned proposition. the gentle- Mr.
Hatch, of Missouri, represented the Mississippi
man who
river, that an appropriation for the Hen¬
nepin canal would be the death knell to
appropriations for the Mississippi adopted river in
the future. The amendment was
reducing from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000
the appropriation for the improvement head of
of the Mississippi river from the
the passes to the mouth of the Ohio river.
Mr. Blanchard explained that his amend¬
ment was due to the fact that congress
had, a few' weeks ago, made an urgent
appropriation of $1,000,000 for the im¬
provement of the river on the understand¬
ing that a reduction of that amount would
be made in the river and harbor bilk
Pending further action, the committee
lose. Public business was proceeded suspended at
4 o’clock, and the house to
pay a tribute to the memory of the late
David Wilbur, of New York. Eulogies
were pronounced by Messrs. Tracy, Sher-
man and Farquhar,of New York; McCor¬
mick of Pennsylvania, and Mcltae of Ar¬
kansas. The house then adjourned. Wil¬
In the senate, on Saturday, Mr.
son, of Iow a, asked and obtained unani¬
mous consent that on Tuesday, after
routine morning business, the bills sub¬
jecting the"laws imported liquors to the provisions
of of the several states shall be
taken up and continued until disposed of.
Mr. Stewart, at first objected finally to the
displacement of the silver bill, but
interposed no objection. Mr. Blackburn,
of Kentuckv, then presented the creden¬
tials of John G. Carlisle as senator from
the state of Kentucky, for Beck s unex-
pired term which commenced on March
9, 1889. Read and placed on file, The
naval appropriation bill was taken up,
the pending question being on an amend¬
ment to the report from the committee on
appropriations—to strike out the item
of $50,000 for the improvement of plants
at the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard.
ARer a long discussion the amendment
was disagreed to. Mr. Cockerill moved
to strike out the provision for three sea-
coin* coast-line battle-ships not to cost
more than $4,000,000 each. Debate on
this amendment consumed the remamdet
of the afternoon and -without action upou
it, or the bill itself, the senate adjourned.’
The house on Monday was called to or¬
der by Clerk McPherson, and, on motion
of Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, was elected
speaker pro tem., and took the chair amid
applause. On motion of Mr. Davidson,
of Florida, the senate bill was passed, in¬ of
creasing to $275,000 the limit of cost
the public building at Jacksonville, Fla.
The floor was then accorded the commit¬
tee on the District of Columbia. The
liock Creek park bill was passed. Other
bills relating to street railroads, bridges
and other local affairs of the district of
no general interest were also passed. The
house adjourned.
The senate on Monday resumed consid’
oration of the navy appropriation bill,
the pending question being on Mr. Cock¬
rell’s amendment to strike out the pro¬
vision for the construction of three heavily
armed battle ships at a cost of four mil¬
lions each.
In the house, on Tuesday, Mr. Hender-
son, from the committee on judi-
ciary, reported a bill to establish a Lnited
States district court, to be held iu
Raleigh, N. C. Placed on the calendar.
Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, submitted the
conference report upon the customs ad¬
ministrative bill. The report w as adopt¬
ed—yeas 127, nays 13. The house then
went into committee of the whole ou the
river and harbor appropriation bill. Va¬
rious amendments making appropriations Mississrppi
for specified points along rejected. the Pending
river were offered and
a decision the committee rose and the
house adjourned.
The senate ou Tuesday resumed con¬
sideration of the bill subjecting imported
liquors to the provisions of the laws ol
the several states, the question being the on
the substitute reported Monday from
judiciary committee providing that li¬
quors so transported shall, when their ac¬
tual ana continuous transportation snau
have terminated, be considered as having
ceased to be subjects of commerce with
foreign nations, and among the several
states, and shall lie a part of the common
mass of property within the state, and
be subject to its police regulations. action....
The bill went over without
The vice-president announced the ap¬
pointment of Mr. Blackburn as a membet
of committee on appropriations, and oi
Mr. Carlisle as a member of the commit¬
tee on finance, territories and woman
suffrage......The conference report on the
bill to simplify 7 the law in relation to the
collec tion of revenue, (the McKinley cus¬
toms administrative bill) was presented ef
and agreed to. The law r is to go into
feet ou the 1st of August, 1890. After a
brief executive session, the senate ad¬
journed.
NOTES.
The secretary of the treasury has ap¬
pointed Henry C. Thrower as shipping
commissioner at Mobile, Ala.
Representative Flower, of New York,
offered in the house on Tuesday toward a joint
resolution the completion appropriting of the Grant $250,000 monument in
Riverside park.
Hon. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
ex-speaker of the house of representa¬
tives, appeared on the floor of the senate
Monday morniDg and was sworn in im¬
mediately after the reading of the
journal.
Representative Clarke, of Alabama, on
Thursday introduced a resolution in the
house to instruct the ways and means
committee to report to the house for its
consideration by Monday the Farmers'
Alliance sub-treasury bill, and that Tues¬
day June 10th be fixed for its considera¬
tion.
The house committee on commerce has
directed a favorable report to be made on
the bill amending the interstate com¬
merce law' so as to permit railroad com¬
panies to give reduced rates with to veterans
attending encampments, an amend¬
ment extending the same privileges to
veteran confederate soldiers.
structed Supervisors of the census refuse have been in¬
where persons to answer
questions relating to physical and mental
disabilities, or questions relat ing to farms,
homes and mortgages, to enter iu the
proper column the words “refused to an¬
swer.” All legal proceedings will be in¬
stituted by the Washington office through
the department of justice.
The house committee on elections, on
Friday, acted upon three of the pending
contested election cases, and the result
will probably be an increase of the re¬
publican majority in the hAilsc by two
members. The cases decided were those
of Langston vs. Venable, from the fourth
Virginia district; Miller vs. Elliott, sev¬
enth South Carolina district, and Chal-
mers vs. Morgan, second Mississippi commit- dis-
trict. In the first two cases the
mittee will report in favor of seating the
republican contestants, LaDgstou and
Miller; but in the Mississippi sitting case the re¬
port will be in favor of the mem¬
ber, Mr. Morgan.
Without holding any formal conference,
the democratic senators have decided that
Mr. Carlisle should succeed Mr. Beck on
the finance committee, and the assign¬
ment committee will recommend to the
vice-president that he be assigned to that
committee. Coming to the senate, equip¬ and
ped, to deal with the tariff question,
coming over to the senate in company
with the tariff bill, which he has studied
to attack, the democrats at once recog¬
nize at once, in defiance of senatorial
tradition, that the proper place for him
was on the finance committee, where he
can lead in the tariff fight. There has
been no controversy over the question,
and Mr. Carlisle will be given an oppor-
tunitv to distinguish himself that no man
before him has had on entering this dec¬
orous body, wedded to form and tradi¬
tion.