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local items.
H Rav, of Macon, was in town
P ‘three this week.
days
n Dent spent two or three
the Central City during the past
n
v e ]lie Jones, of Macon, is visiting
amily of Dr. J. W. Jones, of our
nC i Mrs Lee Watson, of Macon,
“ . Knoxville during the
u re latives in
Lee Ilieks returned a few days
from an extended visit to Macon
ither points. spending
j j Williams has been
c days with relatives and
H several
is in Knoxville.
is Harriet Sims, ot Alabama, is spend-
time with the family of Mr. J.
line of Knoxville.
nnnett,
W E. Champion, one of the
commissioners, was in town last
v after important county
l'v looking
I.izzje Jones, after a visit of sev-
IV ; a mong relatives and friends in
WD ‘ returned last week to her home
■ Central City.
H Hd T j. Williams, of Fort Valley,
Knoxville on Monday evening
Htb a drove recently of horses purchared and in mules Ten-
■ he has
HCrawford County Farmers’ Alli-
Mmticipate ■ an the interesting 10th inst. meeting A full
: Tuesday, different Sub-Aili-
■■ctation of the
^fts Ij. expected.
F. Andrews, of Knoxville, left
■ ■ i’oneta farm, on the Georgia this South- week,
: r. R., on Tuesday of with
■till filling an engagement
■?tor Dunbar.
or Culpepper, of Houston county,
[the candidates for Senator from
[strict, passed through accompanied Knoxville
nday last. He was
James Taylor of the Sixth District
county.
I A. II. Hortman caught twelve or
tu pounds of tine trout at his mill a
ivs ago. The only one he offered
here, and which weighed eight
quarter ponnds, was readily ex-
; for just 100 cents.
I L. R. Allison, of our town, was
ned to the bedside of his wife, at
irt. several days ago. Mrs. Allison
liously ill at the time she leftKnox-
nd has continued to grow worse
ur recovery is now considered very
I family of Mr. S. C. Hunter, for-
cf Macon, are now citizens of
rille, having removed here from
ntral City several days ago. Mr.
iris a painter and paper hanger,
is done considerable work around
Iriiie during the past few weeks.
Hunter is an expert in his line of
tt
■ name of Leila Wright, which
■ have appeared on the roll of honor
Bek, was omitted, being on the re-
■ ide of the sheet from which the
■ we copied. We regret that it oo-
I We are always in sympathy with
ftjdreu, Bnu application as it requires be entitled considerable to
to a
I Bn the roll of honor iu the Kuox-
■igh school.
uiVKC Hicks is now only fond of
but seems to know a little better
ither people how to utilize his
Bfter lie has captured it. Having
B squirrel one morning not long
B tanned the hide and had it cut
ft -hoe strings before Mrs. H. could
ft the unfortunate little animal for
Mr. Hicks used the brains of
nel in tanning his hide, and
but the hide of any other animal
Dated iu the same manner.
• trie wire is called into requisi-
I 1: almost all occasions and for a va-
purposes. As an illustration of
It. a Knoxville young man is said
I: telegraphed for a wife a few days
ft what point we have been unable
Attain. It was directed to a lady,
l- r - who was evidently anticipating
ft ft- "ram, or who, at least, happened
the same frame of mind, as was
led by her response: “Why, yes,
J- The wedding is now in order,
man.
ft: Kit \ld received from Mr. Jona-
iiuer a few days ago a radish
tiad very nearly attained its full
before being taken from his
its dimensions, twelve by ac tual measure-
eing inches in length and
IP ■aches in circumference. We
; ught of having the interior of
a excavated and filled with lead
the crauiums of some of
*1 ■Jblican election managers to be
a " c citing ^° u tb, their if that party ever suc-
- infamous National
’■ Law in operation.
|, L/es offered some time ago by
L' : fierce to purchasers of the
p.HNOt goods at her millinery store
c ~lie f have been awarded its fol-
Vst prize, Mrs. Mrs. R. D. Smith;
. 1 -nze J. W. Jones; third
L b V V • Gent. Mrs. J. C. Hicks
Isaiah Grant were next on the
ft- ■'- prize e r ( ‘ Sl that ‘ c h close they will competitors for
a S “F shell receive, re-
ftW and silver butter
ft;' ft 1 -s tor : 1 le their [ce returns continued thanks and to all
■ patronage. in-
ft 1 - *‘p Scotill, of the Sixth Dis-
■ 1K evi(ie atly one of the
v isnre SID, to Ply because it affords
do so Alt hough 86
years of age he has been busily en¬
gaged within the last few days in harves¬
ting his oat crop, using a common grain
cradle with apparent ease. It is said that
he can do as effective work at anything
else on his farm, and his 1000 acres of
land do not seem to be regarded by him
as any reason for discontinuing his labors
or hiring unnecessary help.
If variety is the spice of life, it was
rather a spicy party of citizens gotteu to¬
gether by Mr. Frank Danielly a few days
ago, so far as occupations are concerned.
In his work on Dr. Jones’ store he had
occasion to move some heavy timbers,
and when he had gotten bis meu to¬
gether, nine in number, the crowd rep¬
resented eight different avocations.
There were two carpenters, one lawyer,
one druggist, one man interested in a
planing mill,one faimer, one painter, one
horse trader and turkey hunter and one
hotel proprietor. There are several men
ii v j n g j n the immediate vicin ity of other
trades and professions who were not
there.
SIXTH DISTRICT ITEMS.
Editor Herald -I respectfully re¬
quest space enough for a few lines in
your valuable paper, and as it is the first
time, I hope it will be granted.
Mr. T. G. Champion, friends of Macon, Sixth vis¬
ited relatives and iu the old
a few days the past week.
The farmers have about finished chop¬
ping cotton, but owing to the rains re¬ of
cently, some of them have a good deal
grass. With a few days of sunshine,
however, their crops will be free of grass
and in fine growing order. Crops, gen¬
erally, are good throughout this section.
Wheat and oats are ready for the harvest,
which may be somewhat delayed by the
rains.
Mr, W. R. Thames has purchased a
large farm bell which be has put up in
his front yard to ring for his hands.
Some of his friends say that he is so fond
of it that he will not let his wife or chil¬
dren ring the bell, and his good lady has
to send one of the children to the field
after him at dinner time so he can come
to the house and practice ringing the
bell.
Mr. Jesse Chance says it has about
gotten to the point where, if a man is
without a farm bell, he is not regarded
as a first-class farmer. He says he in¬
tends having one before starting another
crop. He claims that his wife has bat¬
tered up a ten pound sledge hammer and
worn out the last shovel plow on the
piace.
The mother of Mr. W. E. Champion,
who has been quite sick, is improving.
Mr. E. L. Aultaian, who has been seri¬
ously ill recently, is in better health.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Champion, of near-
Knoxville, visited the lamilv of Mr. W.
E. Champion, on Sunday last.
A Farmer Boy.
CERES CULLINGS.
Cotton choppiug is almost done.
Mr. James Bryan, of Marshallville,
spent Sunday in our ville.
Mr. C. H. Smith is one of the census
enumerators of this county.
Mr. Addill Moncrief, of Oglethorpe,
Ga., was in our ville Sunday.
Messrs. James Dent and Frankie
Wright, of Knoxville, spent Sunday iu
these parts.
A novel scene in our town a few days
since was a negro riding an ox aud lead¬
ing a horse.
Mr. J. P. McNeill had the misfortuae
to lose a tenant house by fire last Friday,
as also the negro who occupied to lose
some of his furniture and clothing. Fire
was left in the stove after dinner, and
all the family were, in the field when it
caught.
Sunday, while going home from church,
Mr. W. H. Visage’s mule became fright¬
ened and ran away, throwing him from
the buggy but did no serious injury.
This left bis daughter in the buggy with¬
out any line*. She quietly kept her
seat, while the mule burned the wind
for nearly a mile, coming to a halt in
front of Mr. 31. J. Moore’s residence.
Last Sunday night, at Union Church,
near this place, Mr. Ed McGee’s horse ran
away and threw Miss Josie Harrison from
the buggy. She was right badly hurt,
but we hope not seriously. C.
KNOXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Belle Harris, Kizzie Lowe,
Walter Wright, R. D. Smith, jr.,
Annie Jack, Burke Lowe,
Lillias Jack, Horace Andrews,
Maud Stroud, Lena Andrews,
Fleeta Stroud, Emmie Hammett,
Killie Allen, Minnie Hicks,
Lee Mathews, Robert Hicks,
Thaddie Mathews, Frankie Wright,
Mattie McCrary, Lula McGee.
Annie Hammett, Lizzie Bryant,
James Hammett, Clara L >ng,
Willie Evarts, Celeste Culverhouse,
Myrtis Nolan, Hattie Hicks,
Rob’t Champion, Arthur Moore,
Clara Wright, Mamie Champion,
Holton Mathews, John Harris,
Dessa Slocum, Arthur Harris,
John Lowe, Hiram Bond,
Willie Smith, Howard Bond.
NEEDS TflEM.
Boardlv (gnawing savagely)—They teeth, Mrs. say
that some chickens have no
Hasher.
Mrs. Hasher—Why, none of them have
teeth. that
Broadlv—I was going to •bserve
this chicken needs a better set of teeth
than I have got.—[Light.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL TOINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The fugitive Mayor Cottrell, of Cedai
Keys, Fla., is said* to have turned up in
Honduras.
The Virginia State Firemen's associa-
lion met in Alexandria Wednesday and
elected officers.
G. R. Davis, of Chicago, was on Mon¬
day appointed receiver of the Chicago
Gas Trust company in bonds of $300,000.
Hon. Thomas Jones was nominated for
governor of Alabama by the gubernatorial Sat¬
convention held at Montgomery on
urday.
The Merchant’s National bank of Jack¬
sonville, Fla., has been authorized to
commence business on a capital of $150,-
000 .
A dispatch of Monday from St. Joseph,
Mo., says: Edison Gregg, one of the
largest brokers of the Missouri river sec¬
tion, has failed.
The shoe firm of Wetherel & Price,
Providence, Rhode Island, failed on
Monday. Liabilities, $125,000; assets
about half.
All the Union printers, members of the
Typographical union in Chattanooga,
went out on a strike at noon
Tuesday. About fifty men are in the
strike.
Frank Mcllvaine, cashier of the Sul¬
phur Deposit bank, at Sulphur, Kv., ten
miles east of Louisville, has left for parts
unknown, aud it is believed he is short in
his accounts.
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, reward for has the of¬
fered five hundred dollars
arrest and conviction of the assassin or
assassins of Major Kimball. The murder
is still shrouded in mystery.
Lightning struck St. Peter’s Catholic
church, in Lexington, Ky., Saturday
night, setting it on fire, The tower w r as
destroyed, aud the flames did much dam¬
age to the main building.
The posts and wires of the Postal tele¬
graph have been erected from Birming-
ham, Ala., as far as Bessemer, The line
is to be built on through to New Orleans,
and four wires will be stretched between
Birmingham and the Crescent City.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Union,
S. C., says: The crop prospects are bet¬
ter than for a good many years; cotton
nas a start seldom equaled. rains The oat making crop
is excellent, the Spring is good
them. The wheat crop not so
It m»iis reported from Clarksburg, W.
Ya., on Monday, that the Pennsylvania
Railroad company had bought the survey
and right of way of the West Virginia Union-
and Pennsylvania railroad, from
town, Pa., up the Monongahela valley to
Clarksburg, for $250,000.
Dupont paper mills, at Louisville, Ky.,
were totally burned by fire Saturday even¬
ing. The estimated loss is $235,000;
fully insured. The property was sold by
Duponts to a Louisville syndicate a few
mouths ago. A policeman afterwards was overcome died.
by smoke and shortly
The Augusta and Summerville railroad,
which has done street ear business in Au¬
gusta, Ga., for the past twenty odd years,
was sold on Monday to the Richmond
and Danville company. The saved purchasers
paid $76,000, which will be in a
few years in freight privileges.
Wm. McCullough, a blacksmith ol
Charlotte, N. C., aged thirty-five years, is
fast losing his mind, it is believed, on
account of the preaching of that cele¬
brated evangelist, Rev. Sam Jones. Mc¬
Cullough is a married man and has two
adopted children. He has saved some of
his earnings, and is now giving every¬
thing he possesses to the poor.
The city of Richmond, Ya., has insti¬
tuted suit in the chancery the court late against Aylett
the estate and sureties of
R. Woodson, who for several city years prior
to his death, i:i 1887, was collector,
for $36,270.26, alleged to be due by
reason of a shortage in his accounts.
Among the bondsmen are some of Rich¬
mond’s most prominent business men.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in the
Oakland, Cal., accident was that the vic¬
tims came to their deaths by drowning,
caused by criminal negligence on the part
of Engineer Dunn. The verdict further
recites, “we find Engineer Dunn gui|tv
of manslaughter. We also find that the
railway company does not take sufficient
caution to sij^pal traius when approach¬
ing a draw bridge.”
Judges W. P. Harris and S. S. Cal¬
houn, two of the most prominent men iu
Mississippi, who were nominated as two
of the four democratic nominees to the
constitutional convention from Hinds
county, decline to [accept for the reason
the convention instructed them to vote
against auy measure prerequisite making a the property right
1 Unification the to
of suffrage. They do not want to be in¬
structed, though they oppose such a re¬
striction.
A dispatch of Wednesday, from Jack-
son, Miss., says* In view of the
prevalence of a disease among the horses
m that locality, supposed to be glanders,
Governor Stone has communicated with
Professor Tracy, of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college, and expects an in¬
spector to be sent by the United States
government to investigate the disease.
The board of supervisors have also ap¬
pointed inspectors who are authorized on
certain conditions to kill stock supposed
to be infected with this malady.
Thk seven-weeks-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. B. Hancock.of Fort Dodge, Iowa, jabbed his
little fist into his grandmother’s eye and the
«ld lady now has only one optic.
CARLISLE’S LETTER.
HE SAYS THE SUB-TREASURY SCHEME IS
NOT PRACTICABLE.
To B. F. Howard, of Tuskegee, Ala.,
Senator Carlisle has written a lengthy
letter in response to Mr. Howard’s request
for the senator’s views upon the agricul¬
tural tained sub-treasury in the proposition, as con¬
bills before congress to pro¬
vide for a system of ware-houses for farm
produce throughout the country to be op¬
erated by the government, which is to is¬
sue its notes upon the products stored
therein. Senator Carlisle says that Mr.
Howard’s statement that he and those as¬
sociated with him are in favor of equal
justice to all aud special favors doctrine, to none, and
embodies some democratic
if it had been strictly adhered to in con¬
gress in the past the twenty-five years’
evils, of which farmers and others justly
complain, would have been averted, and
the whole country would now be prosper¬
ous and contented.
But, says the senator, the farmers have
been taxed so long for the benefit ol
other classes and have seen so much leg¬
islation for the aggrandizement of cor¬
porations and syndicates that their pa¬
tience is exhausted, and finding it impos¬
sible. for the time being at least, to abol¬
ish a system which has industrial oppressed interest and
despoiled the greatest demanding
of the country, they are now
that the very policy which they have
heretofore denounced as unjust and ruin¬
ous shall be applied to them, or rather a
part of them, for no scheme has yet been
suggested that would operate alike upon
all farmers. But no evil can be corrected:
no wrong can be righted by increasing its
magnitude and extending the scope of its
operations. There is but one effectual
remedy for the evil, which undoubtedly
exists, and that is to reverse the policy
which produced it. rehearsing the fea¬
The senator, after
tures of the proposed sub-treasury them¬ plan,
and noting the fact that farmers
selves will pay more than their fair share
of the cost of erecting ware-houses, and
that the officers connected with them will
be partisans of the administration in
power, says there are more than 5,40C
counties iu the United States, bnt not
more than one-third of them, if that
many, produce and sell annually more
than $500,00 J worth of wheat, corn, oats
and cotton. Therefore, not more than
one-third of them could possibly
avail themselves of this plan, if it were
adopted. It will be seen, therefore, at
the very outset, that it is a plan to com¬
pel the government to issue aud distri¬
bute money for the benefit of peo¬
ple living in rich aud produc¬
tive counties at the expense of peo¬
ple living in poorer and less productive enable
ones. Moreover, it is a plan to advant¬
unscrupulous speculutors to take
age of the farmers’ pecuniary necessities,
and extort exorbitant prices for food from
people who reside in the cities, towns and
villages, and from people who reside in
the country, but do not own these par¬
ticular agricultural products. It is evi¬
dent that no farmer will subject himsell
his to the products labor and public expense warehouses, of transporting i^d
to limit
to all the other charges which he
pay for the storage, for handling and for
taking care of them while there, when lie
has barns and granaries at home, unless
he is in debt and absolutely needs the
money, which the government is to ad-
vance, and if he is in that unfortu-
nate condition, from what source is
he afterwards to acquire the means
to redeem the products by returning
the money and interest and paying the
warehouse charges? In a great majority
of cases, he will never be able to redeem
them, but will be forced to loose the re¬
maining twenty per cent value of his pro¬
duct, or sell his warehouse receipts for
whatever lie can get for them, which will
be very little, for it must be remembered
that after lie gets his warehouse receipts
he has remaining an interest of only
twenty per cent, less charges for interest,
storage, etc., and this is all he can dis¬
pose of. lie will find the time rapidly
approaching when he must have money
to redeem his products or sell his small
remaining interest iu them, or allow them
to be sold at public auction by the gov¬
ernment, and this will be a golden oppor¬
tunity for speculators, whose agents will
swarm all over the country ready to take
warehouse receipts from the embarrassed
owners for a merely nominal sum.
A receipt is simply a privilege of re¬
demption, like a pawn-broker’s ticket, and
the farmer being himself unable to re¬
deem will be forced ultimately to dispose
of it at any price offered. I do not think
that any considerable number of Intelli¬
gent people in this country will unite in
asking the government to establish a sys¬
tem which will compell them, in a large
number of cases, to sacrifice the product
of their labor.
Senator Carlisle argues at some length
to show that the annual expansion and
contraction of the currency absolutely provided de¬ for
in the bill, would result in
stroying the market upon which the
farmer must depend for the sale
of his crops, and that the cotton
farmers, who support the sub-treasury
plan, would be especial sufferers, because
the plan, in the writer’s estimate, would
close every cotton factory in the country.
No such facilities as this scheme will af¬
ford for controlling markets for existed a purely
speculative purpose have ever in
this or any other country, and no more
perfect system for the opp ression of the
people could be devised, The exact
quantities of products on deposit in the
several public warehouses will be known
in every commercial and financial center.
Combinations to purchase and hold the
receipts could be easily made, especially
whon they can be procured by the pay¬
ment of a small per centum of value of
deposit. In conclusion Senator Carlisle
says: given briefly
“I have thus you. as a?
the nature of the subject would Derniit.
some reasons why I think the proposed
plan for the relief of farmers would be
injurious, instead of beneficial, not only
to them but to all other people of the
country, but it would be uncandid not to
say, distinctly, before closing this com¬
munication, that even if it could be con¬
clusively shown that this, or any other
similar scheme, would be pecuniarily
beneficial to any particular class of our
people, I would still be unalterably op¬
posed to would its adoption, because, in my
opinion, it be another wide and
dangerous departure from the principles
upon which our political institutions are
founded. It would be, in fact, the long¬
est step yet taken in time of peace towards
the consolidation of power in the hands
of the federal government, and the sub¬
jection of the private affairs of the peoplo
to the supervision and control of a cen¬
tral and irresponsible authority.”
Meeting of the Crawford County Demo¬
cratic Executive Committee. Tues¬
day Junp 3rd, 1890.
The following is a report of the meet¬
ing of the Crawford County Democratic
Executive Committee at the court house
in Knoxville on Tuesday last.
Present—J. W. J«ck. |Chairrnan; S.
H. Causey, Sandy Poiut District; L. C.
Futrell, Beasley; J. F. Hartley, Sixth;
M. J. Moore, Webbs; A. J. Johnson,
Hammocks, B. F. Kennedy, Third; W.
B. Davis, Seventh; R. D. Smith proxy
for H. D. McCrary, Knoxville.
Resolved, That a mass meeting of the
Democrats of Crawford county be held
at the court house iu Knoxville on June
28th, 1890, for the purpose of appointing
delegates gressional to the Gubernatorial and and Con¬
Convention, the appoint¬
ment of a new executive committee.
Resolved, That we hereby condemn
the action of the Democratic Executive
Committee of Houston county in calling
a nomination for senator of the 23rd
District on Jnne 7th, said power and
authority being lodged only iu the Dis¬
trict Executive Committee. That it is
the rule of this District, established at
the instance of the Democracy of Hous¬
ton county, to submit the nomination to
the entire District by [primary election
and adhered to in 1882, 1884, 1886 and
1888, and we demand that this estab-.
lished rule be adhered to and carried
out, and we refuse to be bound by or
submit to any other rule,
ad locals
KILLED BY LIGHTNING-
\ BOLT STRIKES FOUR MEN, KILLING TWO
OF THEM.
A Detroit Free'Press 'special from Cairo,
Mich., says: At 7 o'clock Wednesday
evening four farmers were struck by
lightning, four miles west of here—T. N.
Taggett, Edward Goodchild, William
Holmes and Matt Ringle. operation They were
engaged in performing an on a
young horse. A thunder storm came up .
suddenly and a bolt of lightning struck
in the midst of the men. Goodchild and
Hojip es were jlead ho when assistance of the ar¬
rived, although marks or traces their
current could be found upon per¬
sons. Ringle and Taggett are recovering.
WICKED STUDENTS
RESORT TO VANDALISM IN CELEBRATION
OF THEIR VICTORIES.
A dispatch from Boston, says: The
Harvard boys held high carnival Satur¬
day night over their victories iu the Yale
baseball games. During the night the
college buildings were defaced with vari¬
ous mottoes, including * some profane
references to Yale. The statute of John
Havard was besmeared with red paint.
The inscription was hidden, and sculp¬
tors will have to chisel away the paint.
There is much indignation over the van¬
dalism.
Bismarck is a “Chain Smoker.”
derful. Bismarck’s Ever capacity for university tobacco is won¬ days
since bis
he has been known as a “chain smoker”
(kettenraucher), that is, a smoker bis dinner who
connects his breakfast and
with an endless chain of cigars, each
light ad from the stump of the last one.
“Happy man!” Gambctta once said to
him. “happy man! Beer and smoke
agree with him.”
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