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Dr. j v. Smith, of Hickory Grove,
town on Monday of this week.
L ia
f W. Jack, we regret to learn,
keen seriously ill for the past several
L exhibition of the Knoxville High
,",,1 will be held on the 26th and 27th
L present month.
here was a very good attendance on
meeting of the county Alliance in
jvville on Tuesday last.
voters of Crawford county need
: >c iv reminded of the Democratic
to be here the 28th
meeting to be held on
une.
L, Hullmaster, who is connected with
mill, was seriously cut in a diffi-
■ w the'excursion train Saturday
L 0 n on
Try thing is favorable in the way of
[reports -V The from every are in good section condition of the
b crops they bet-
any of the farmers say are
[ban'at the same date last year.
L tV. W. Black is. perhaps, as lonely
as Knoxville contains just at this
[as the other Atlanta members Saturday of his family last,
[{- for on
j c they will remain several weeks.
I L W. P. Blasingame attractive is now well dental es-
e( I i n his neat and
i ; n Knoxville, next to the Harris
l. His office will be found by his
hers to be as pleasant and inviting
Lid be desired.
[ J. K. Blasingame, in unfortunate who was shot dif-
T- h! days ago an said be improv-
in Culloden, is to
[ Mr. Gibson Rutherford, the other
involved, is also doing well, with a
Let of rapid recovery from the knife
ds received by him.
Ite a number of the citizens of this
punity made au excursion trip to quite At-
| last Saturday. There are also
liber [mined of the same citizens who seem
not to go on the next excur-
Even pleasure carried to excess, as
Is instance, becomes irksome. But
live heard a good many express them-
t as though they failed to fim
fleasure. We suppose they were jest-
however. With a little time for re-
Lb and,recuperation, and a supply of
[ [e market, ‘dollar for they the could round in trip” all tickets proba-
\ be induced to try au excursion
! more time.”
CERES CORRESPONDENCE.
Ls Lizzie Moncrief, of Marshallville,
[thing low elocution for in our school. exhibition, We
preparing au
It h we hope will be the grandest thing
season.
pee the burning at Mr. McNiece’s,
8'ephens, a gentleman who lives on
Bid Dent’s place, was burned out.
arter or a dollar given to him would
Lney given in a good way.
[ Lay. ought We to have be getting holiness real good preacher up
a
pch for us every first Sunday. He
[ gets mad, will not backbite his
[bars, [of and ministers, he must for be different he never from be-
our
p offended with other denominations
reaching their doctrinal sermon, nor
lem to preach after him, and try to
lilate his teachings.
I think the prospects are good for
ler marriage very soon in our com-
; y-
t farmers are about through cho}>-
totton.
Intj of iain and crops are looking
M. J. Moore has just received a
[ot of goods and a number of new
1 *
:fc
items from warrior.
L John Wilder, W’hile hoeing cotton,
| three weeks ago, had his left eye
pd [fliance out. He belonged to the Beth-
M club, and fifteen of them
out his cron, They also made
p for him.
1 ^ i’l Taylor, who has recently
ed.had his house burned last Thurs-
vening together with everything J b
ie had. - He lost $144 in money, a
Potgun and also a couple of hogs.
e ffiec, chaingang in is camped at the Hart
the Hazard district. Mr.
!e is taking out all the old wooden
<?$ and putting ia piping. He is
l » * ae Searcy road in fine condi-
e rorn crops from Macon to Knox-
Me A 1. Also, the Irish potatoes
ardens.
e Sunday-school at Bethel is pro-
l n S v ery well.
L \„ I in ‘ or Hazard High school closes June
i ae and gives High school closes
j “ a fine dinner. 'J The
lu scll °ol closes on Friday, 13th.
ifeis a reward of $23 offered for
Castleberry.
i census men are very busv in Bibb
y taking the census.
^ ln reported S m the Warrior. that there will be a big
J.
Kedly, a iuumaua , bad
^ y ,at Jays ago ....... he was
It 'dvin^old r-nvf. i l lame and
clu cow,
\t 16 80 'grined about
L- the stok? K p ^J led his bo °t fired
- on,
aa possible.
ABOUT SHOOTING STABS.
TEN MILLIOH METEORS TALL ON
THE EARTH EVERY DAY-.
A Shower of Shooting Stars—The
Remarkable Adventures of a
Planet—Terrific Aerial Velocities.
Professor George M. Searle. in a recent
lecture at Washington on meteors and
their relations to comets, stated, reports
the Star of that city, many interesting -
astronomical facts. He began by making
some remarks regarding the frequency of
ordinary meteors and especially their
greater frequency toward morning, be¬
cause at that time we are. as it were, on
the bow of the earth, while in the even-
ing we are at its stern. It is estimated
that over ten million meteors fall on the
earth in the course of the day visible to
the naked eye—that is thirty to sixty an
hour—on an average, at any one place.
Observations have shown that meteors
travel with immense velocities. They are
usually as much as fifty miles away from
us and, indeed, fifty miles above the sur¬
face of the earth, which shows that the
atmosphere is higher than has been com¬
monly believed, for they derive their heat
and light from combustion caused by
their contact with the atmosphere. A
meteor has been observed to come from
the Pacific to the Atlantic in about two
minutes—that is at the rate of about
twenty miles a second, and that was not
at all an unusual velocity. It is evident,
then, that meteors are really planets, but
most of them are very minute. As they
cannot be seen to reach the earth their
size is estimated by the light they give.
Twelve foot-pounds of energy is equal to
the light of a standard candle. On this
basis the weight of common shooting
stars has been found to vary from one
grain to one hundred grains, There
being about fifteen million grains in a ton
it is possible that ten tons may fall on the
earth in a day, but even if a hundred
tons should fall every day it would, it is
estimated, only make a layer one inch
thick in a thousand million years. Of
course there are some larger ones called
aerolites, and these have been known to
fall to the ground in considerable num-
bers, but the largest ones actually reach-
ing the earth have not weighed over 500
pounds, though they probably weighed
more when they entered the air.
Meteors have been seen to fall in show-
ers at various times. Perhaps the most
remarkable in this century was one of
November 12, 1863, in -which §50,000
were counted by an observer at Boston in
the space of six hours. These meteors
seemed to diverge from a single point in
the sky, and this is always the case in dis¬
plays of this kind. As one "old lady re¬
marked, the sky appeared like a big um¬
brella. This the effect of celestial per¬
spective and merely means that the me¬
teors are all traveling in parallel lines.
This display was found to have occurred
previously in 1799 and was traced, when
attention had been called to the subject,
as far back as the year 902, appearing at
intervals of about thirty-three years, there
being records of a large number of its
recurrences since that date. It was found
that they could be accounted for only by
a swarm of meteors traveling in an orbit
around the sun, requiring thirty-three
years for its complete circuit and the pro¬
cession or swarm being so long as to re¬
quire two or three years to pass a given
point. On the strength of this conclu¬
sion Professor Newcomb predicted a
repitition of this shower in 1866, which
was observed, with repetitions in 1867
and 1868, all being quite remarkable,
though not so noticeable as that of 1833.
The next step in the matter was the
discovery that the comet of 1866 moved
in the same orbit as these meteors and
that the slighter showers which occur in
August of every year move in the same
orbit as the comet of 1862.
The lecturer then proceeded to give an
account of the remarkable adventures of
Biela’s comet. This comet was discov-
ered early in the century and found to
move in a six-year orbit, and was so ob-
served during several returns. In 1846
it was found to have separated into two
comets, traveling side by side. In 1852
the double comet was again seen to re-
turn. In 1859, circumstances being uu-
favorable, it was hardly expected to be
seen, but in 1865, though carefully
looked for, no trace of it was found.
Now 7 the orbit of this comet intersects
that of the earth, the junction being
about at the point which we occupy in
the end of November, and, in fact, it had
been feared that a collision might occur
betw r een Biela’s comet and the earth ever
since the time that its orbit had first been
calculated. In 1872, as we crossed
this point, a shower of metors was actu¬
ally observed coming in the same direc¬
tion and following the same course as the
comet itself would have done had it been
there. So confident was the astronomer
Klinkerfues that we had actually collided
with the comet itself that he sent to Pog-
son, at Madras, the following telegram,
probably the most remarkable that ever
crossed a wire: “Biela touched earth,
November 27. Search near Theta Cen-
tauri.” Search being made, a comet was
actually found near that point, but bad
weather prevented sufficient observations
to determine its orbit. It does not ap-
pear probable that it was the principal
body of the former comet, as it was not
on the right part of its orbit; the comet
should have been gone by some consid-
erable time earlier, but that there is little
doubt that this comet forms part of the
same system, and indeed it is more than
doubtful if Biela’s comet, as such, any
Ionger exists. The probability is that the
whole thing has been broken up into a
meteoric stream, Besides those men-
tioned other meteoric streams are known
to be accompanied by comets, moving in
the same orbit, and it appears probable
that all of the meteoric streams or
showers occurring periodically been are the disia. re¬
mains of comets which have
tegrated by planetary perturbations.
SELECT SIFTINGS,
The London Zoological Society possesses
® white peacock,
The nationality of a person born at sea
depends on the nationality of his parents.
The taxes on 100 acres of land in
Samoa are only thirty-nine cents pei
year.
A correspondent says that Explorei
Stanley’s face is the color of a cooked
olive.
Silver was first coined in what is now
the territory of the Edited States in
1652.
Germany exports 13,000 canaries to
America every year and 12,000 to other
countries.
There seems to be good reasons for
fearing that the zebra is rapidly becom¬
ing extinct.
The wolves destroyed 213 human
beings in the course of the last twelve-
month in Russia.
It is said that twenty-five per cent,
more cigerettes are smoked in the summer
than in the winter.
Philadelphia ornithologists have noted
112 species of birds in the vicinity of that
city since January 1.
A considerable sum of the Russian
revenue is annually spent in payment for
the corpses of wolves.
In 1880 the United States had a largei
percentage of foreigners than any othei
country in the world.
The largest perfect diamond in the
world is the Imperial, owned by a syn¬
dicate in Paris. It is valued at $1,000,-
000.
A man in Collins. Medina County,
^^io, ^as a pi ece 01 pine board seven-
eighths of an inch thick which had a
wheat straw drivcn throu S b k b y the *e-
cen ‘ c y c ^ one -
Air. Youngblood is an old gentleman
of Coffee County, Ga., who has killed
993 deer in his time. He still uses his
old flint-and-steel rifle and can cut a tur-
key’s head olf at seventy-five yards,
J. Edwards, of Hume, Fauquier Coun¬
ty, Va., was playing with his brothers
when one of them threw a grain of corn
into his mouth, which lodged in his
windpipe. Two doctors were summoned,
but not in time to save liis life,as he died
in two hours.
One of the relics placed in the corner¬
stone of the Confederate Soldiers’ Home
at Atlanta is a spur sent by General Long-
street. It was made from a Union can¬
non captured at the first battle of Bull
Run, and was worn by General Long-
street throughout the war.
The heart beats sixty-nine times each
. ^ te and ... tarows *? ood ° e f ? et- Com „
minu m -
P uted , thus, the mileage of the blood
through the body might be taken as 207
yards per minute, seven miles per hour,
168 miles per day, 61,320 miles per year,
or 4,292,400 miles a lifetime of seventy
years.
The time required fora journey around
the eavth by a man walking day and
night, without resting, would be 428
days; an express train, forty days; sound,
at a medium temperature, thirty-two and
one-half hours; a cannon ball, twenty-
one and three-quarter hours; light, a lit¬
tle more than one-tenth of a second; and
electricity, passing over a copper wire, a
little less than one-tenth of a second.
A Wonderful Nut.
The fruit of the coco-de-mer, which
General “Chinese” Gordon believed to be
the forbidden fruit of the Garden of
Eden, has been exported to Europe. The
nut weighs twenty pounds and measures
twenty-five inches across. The palm on
which it grows (lodoicea sec-hellarum) is
100 feet in height, and is only to be found
0 n the Seychelle Islands. Hundreds of
years before the Seychelles were discov-
ered these nuts were washed up on the
Maidive Islands, and the wiseacres of
those days told the people that this sea¬
borne fruit had grown on a submarine
tree, and that it had a mysterious power
of counteracting poisons, Hence the
name—coco-de-mer. It is probable that
Gorden met with allusions to this won-
derful nut in Arabic MSS., and after-
ward visiting Seychelles w r as struck by
the beautiful and isolated group of islands
and their double cocoanut.— Chicago
Herald.
Silver Coinage in China.
fhe Chinese Government is contempla-
ting a revolution in the coinage of that
country, which is now of copper, ranging
in value from about a mill to a coin worth
about twenty cents in face value, without
either gold or silver coins. Bars of gold
and silver bullion, however, are used in
commerce, and the Mexican silver dollar
circulates extensively in the seaboard
cities, It is now proposed by the Chi-
nesc Government to make silver a money
metal and to issue a series that will cor-
respond somewhat to our dollars, halves,
quarters and dimes. The coinage will be
uniform throughout the vast Empire,
with its 430,009,000 population—at least
six and a half times that of the United
States. This will open a new market for
the silver of the world, and ought to
make silver higher in price and aid in re-
establishing its olfUtime ratio with gold,
— Toledo Blade.
F. H. WEIGHT. w. r: ALLEN.
WRIGHT & ALLEN,
--DEALERS Ilf-
Dry Goods, Groceries,
Hats, Shoes,
HARDWARE AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
We can furnish you with High Grade
fertilizers,, the best on the market, 1 Mlf
them. Best quality Com, 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
to show you.
CRAWFORD SHERIFF'S SALES.
iy-James GEORGIA—Crawford County.— Cham-
A. Moore and John I.
i-mn, executors of James Roberts, Re¬
leased, have applied to me for letters of
dismission from their executorship. Un¬
less good objections are filed, I will
graut them letters dismissory on the fiist
Mouday in June, 1890. Witness my
baud officially this the 4th day of
Match, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
Ordinary.
pEORGIA— Crawford County.—
gW. 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.
p EORGIA— Crawford County. —W.
||M. Taylor, administrator of estate of
Rufus 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 tiled. Witness
my hand officially, this January 27th,
' WRIGHT,
1890. O. P.
jan 31-13 Ordinary.
p E <J RG1A— Cr a w for d Coun’i Y. —A.
|jC. Sanders and ofThos. James M. J. Sanders, Sanders,
executors of the will
deceased, have applied to me for letters
dismissory from tlieir executorship;
iherefore 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 Ordiuary.
GEORGIA —Crawford County. —II.
13 M. Burnett, administrator on estate
of Mrs. Martha Stem bridge, deceased,
has applied to me for letters of dismis¬
sion from the administration of said es¬
tate, and same will be granted unless on good the
first Monday in July next, hand
objections are filed. Witness my
officially this April 1st. 1890. WRIGHT,
O. P.
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 auy
they have, within the time prescribed
by law 7 w hy said application should not
be granted. hand officially this, the
Witness my
31st day of March, 1890.
O. P. WRIGHT,
Ordinary.
KNOXVILLE HIGH SCH0 0L.
Roll of Honor-
Walter Wright, Minnie Hicks,
Annie Jack, Robert Hicks,
Ufa Jack, Frankie Wright,
Lithas Jack, Lizzie Bryant,
Belle Harris. Clara Long,
Maud Stroud, Celesta Culverhouse,
Fleeta Stroud, Hattie Hicks,
Killie Allen, Bessie Collier,
Lee Mathews, Lawton LeSueur,
Thaddie Mathews, Arthur Moore,
Hiram McCrary, Mamie Champion, Harris,
Mattie McCrary J. Thomas
Louise Jones, Arthur Harris,
Myrtis Nolan, Hiram Bond.
Robert Champion, Howard Bond,
Clara Wright, Leila Wright, Smith,
Holton Mathews, Florence
Burke Lowe, Willie Smith.
Horace Andrews, Forest Goodin
Lena Andrews.
The work of restoring the historic cas-
lie at Heidelberg has begun,and is will notin- con¬
tinue for two years at least. It
tended to restore the picturesque ruins,
but to renew the foundations and restore
certain portions of the castle in strict
, in the time
conformity to its appearance
of the electors Palatine.
EORGIA,— Crawford County.
Appraisers appointed to assign and set
apart a year’s support to Mrs. A. V. Han¬
cock, from the estate of G. 9. Hancock,
deceased, haye 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, 1800.
O. P. Wright, Ordinary.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
R. D. Smith. W. P. Blasingame,
SMITH & BLASINGAME f
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Knoxville, Ga.
Prompt and faithful attention given to
all business entrusted to tlieir care.
MONEY CHEAP AND EASY.
(o)
If you want CHEAP AND QUICK
MONEY, on easy and liberal terms, you
eau 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 tht
Practice of Dentistry to the citizens of
Knoxville and surrounding country, £n<f
will spare no effort to secure my patron*
competent work and perfect satisfaction.
Charges Reasonable.
KNOXVILLE
HIGH SCHOOL
SPRING TERM.
Opens....... .......January 13
Closes....... .......... June 27
FALL 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 clieerfullv fur-
uished by
C. C. POWER,
PrinciDal.
THE HARRIS HOUSE,
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Always open to public patronage. We
try to please our guests. Comfortable
Room and good Fare. Free hack to and
from Depot.
Z, T. HARRIS,
Proprietor.
THE WRONG DEGREE.
Did yon get a degree at the univer-
WlJ S
though. “Well, yes. Not the one I wanted,
I went in for an A. B. and got
a Zero.”