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COUNTY 1 t,. ALLIANCE.
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G Culverhouse, W. \ te ’ vice p re3 ij, - at •
H. secretary.
fc \ Causey, treasurer
Futrell, lecturer
[p. L McGee, ^tanUecturer.
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KNOXVILLE ,. v ,rriri' ALLiAiyo ALLIANCE .
L Cu i ve vhouse. president.
P Perrv vice-president.
? Causev, secretary.
vUndifer, treasurer.
l J* McGee er,’ lecturer.
p 0W assistant lecturer.
bright, " sentinel. assistant sentinel.
B at , Saturdays _ each
'eets first and third in
nth. tf
LOCAL ITEMS.
■ log days are here.
L j. l. Hammett visited Atlanta
I week.
I c. Futrell and wife were in town
Hast Monday.
L have several marriages booked for
fall season.
hiat is the matter with our correspon¬
ds this week ?
h is awful wet, but the frogs are call¬
er more lain.
ilr. Jack Martin of Ft. Valley, was in
rn last Tuesday.
Hr. C. E. Worsham opened school at
itkina’ Chape11 on last Monday.
our desirable residences for sale. Call
|Smith ti Blasingame for terms.
fclrs. >1. J. Moore of Ceres, spent Mon-
k with Mr. F. H. Wright’s family.
there will lie several new pupils to at-
ll Knoxviile High school next term.
iMr. M. J. Moore, of Ceres, paid us a
peg but pleasant visit on last Monday.
pfiss Dora McAfee is in Culloden this
ek. visiting her brother, Hon. A. J. Mc-
ee.
111. K. Webb and wife, of Goshen Val-
I, attended church in Knoxville last
I mlay.
[The bret to friends learu of that Misi she Bessie is the Smith sick will list
[is on
week.
Miss Scrap Wright, a charming young
ply H. from Wright. Macon, is visiting her uncle,
Guess what widower offered a certain
png lady 15 cents per pound for her
Kton this fall.
A
Mr. T. W. Rmkin, of Bamah, with
I s daughter. Miss Jessie, visited Knox-
i’e this week.
[Col. py morning II. D. to Smith attend left the for Congressional Macon, Tues-
Invention there on Wednesday.
|F. Imday II. and Wright Drought visited b ick the Gate nice City baby on
linage—: a
or Pi 0K Power, he says.
I Miss Aurora Burnett and M ss Alpha
['Manus visited Miss Lillie Blasingame
no is recovering irom her recent Hints*.
j A. J, Danielly, B. A. Hartley and J.
r MM pass, visited Macon last week,
r !e ft au d had to stay a day longer thaa
r. v expected.
Mis. Elizabeth Smith, of Hickory
r'Ji 1 some now time in with Knoxville, her and wili
. son, li. D.
pita, Esq.
[/.• pucu - y measured - Andrews six killed a blue heron
[? feet oue inch from
to ’-ip, five feet high, with a trunk
“ : f ei ght inches long.
C. .J Hunter's family who moved
M “ om Macon a short time ago left for
oinaston on Wednesday to adopt that
^ we as their
new home.
Xow is the time for poor men to buy
8U ' 1 he laud companies will help
ater ^ *t 0 P a than y I° r it it. It is cheaper to pay
is to pay rent.
L A. McCarty aad W. L. Winn
^ were
“ °," for a Tuesday, and arranged for
three boys, who are to enter
r°° liefe the the 1st of September.
Big d ay &t Cere9 to-morrow; railroad
[. F ghteen from Knoxville _ and return only
f r for cenis. It will be a delightful
‘P the young, and au enjoyable one
r r the old.
Me find no trouble in selling land.
n av a
I applicants every dav. If you have
[ • at Vou would like to sell, put it in
Ui, , ^ .-
We ^ther for a
ngSc 0n ° r on tcrras - South & Blas-
teetb not only imp rove your
ur dentil J °w " e good «?xpect look9 to says the
id Whi'l Umid3 soon see
ih. cuttia S uc *
-icndo i you will get
r u Query. suppose
Mrs. D
“ da F- sh e is iudeed excellent
an
F. al,M “ ce wil1
everybody thought was to be married on
that day? It must have been the couple
that have been afflicted with a chronic
case of courting of six year’s standing.
w -pi r>i Champion ■
Tuesday was in town on
and reported that caterpillars
,nadeth « ir «ppearancein hiscotton.
fhe c mtiaued rams have coveredja good
deal of the cotton lands with ponds
wh ' ch WlU be a great iQ -> ur ? t0 the cr0 P-
VeI 7 Iittle business was transacted in
c ourt ° f ordina5 7 b y Judge Wright Mon-
day. 1 M. r J. Newberry was appointed J.
P. for 577th district. Report of apprais-
crg j a year’s support of Mrs. M. E. Evans
approved. Voting precinct in Webb’s
district changed to Musella.
The jury commissioners met on last
Monday to revise the jury box, but on
account of Mr. Burnett’s sickness all of
the members had not been notified, and
were not present, therefore the business
wa3 it will postponed be attended until next Monday, The"body when
to. is
composed of L. C. Futrell, H. C, Smith,
W. P. Allen, J. A. Avra, T. O. Vinson
and M. H. McElmurray.
A Child Charmed by a Rattle Snake.
The old legen that a certain specie of
snake, by some misterious performance
can charm other animals, seems to be ex¬
emplified. Mr. J. L. Hammett tells us
of a remarkable instance of the kind
which occurred last week on Mr. J. A.
Avar’s place near Clark’s Mill in this
county. A family of negroes live near Mr.
Avar’s store. The mother noticed peculiar
demonstrations of her child which was
playing near the house, and on going to
it found near by a large vigorous rattle
snake, which appeared to be ready to
spring upon its victim, to pierce with its
fatal fangs. The mother quickly rescued
her child, procured a weapon and slew
tbe defiant serpent. The snake had on
its tail eleven rattles and one button,
making it twelve years old.
Aliiance Resolution.
Resolved, That the delegates of this
lodge (Union Academy Farmers’ Alliance)
and the members as well do condemn the
acts of Jeff D. McGee in the last race for
county officers as the Alliance selected
for ther candidate A. J. McAfee, a wor¬
thy citizen, etc., and the delegates arc
instructed to oppose the installation of
the same as lecturer of the County Alli¬
ance, and we ask the sister lodges to co¬
operate with us.
M. J. Newberry, President.
S. B. Causey, Secretary.
August 2, 1890.
Last Sabbath’s Visit.
The writer, on last Sunday, visited the
Sabbath schools at Wesley Chapel and
Society Hill, in the Sixth District. Did
not go as a Sabbath school evangelist,
but in his feeble way addressed the for¬
mer school in the morning and the latter
in the evening. These are both large and
very interesting schools. The singiug need at
Wesley was excellent indeed. They
not be ashamed to enter the song contest
at any convention.
Protracted Meeting.
A meeting will commence at the Bap¬
tist church in Knoxville on Thursday
evening, Aug. 14th, and will be protrac¬
ted during tbe following week. The
meeting will be conducted by Rev. A. C.
Williams, the pastor, assisted by Rev.
W. S. Rogers, pastor of Barnesville Bap¬
tist church. Mr. Rogers is an excellent
man and a fine preacher, and we have
no doubt that those who hear him will
be both pleased and edified. All are in¬
vited to attend.
Major J. M. Culpepper Nominated.
The returns of the late primary held in
the 23rd Senatorial Distiict on tbe 26th
July, last, having been consolidated,
shows a majority ofJOOl, of all votes cast,
in favor of J. M. Culpepper. I there¬
fore, by authority vested in me by the
Senatorial executive committee, do here¬
by announce and declare that Maj. J. M.
Culpepper is the regular nominee of the
Democratic party of the 23rd Senatorial
District of Georgia.
B. L. Ross,
Ch’rm. Sen. Ex. Com.
F. C. Houser, Sec’y.
A New Establishment
for Knoxville.
I have secured the agency for the right
the largest, soundest and best Fire
Insurance companies in the world. I
will establish a general insurance office
I w ill be prepared to fill out and
your policy immediately after
the property. Everybody
keep their property insured (and
lives too). I respectfully solicit
patronage. Walter P. Blasingame.
NOTICE!
To Mr Friends and Patrons : I have
moved the stock of millinery goods to my
st0 re, where I intend selling them at laying cost,
aS I wish to close them out before
ht out tb«
e stock of
and “same all debts and liabilities of tbe
6Tm °J J ' “• WiU *“ * B D :
B WILSON.
THE HONEY BEE BUSINESS
CT HAS BECOME A GREAT INDUS¬
TRY IN THIS COUNTRY.
California the Heaviest Distributing-
Point—Difference In Honey—Curi¬
ous Ways of Bees.
To learn all about honey, honey bees,
and the honey industry of the world has
been the life work of a Brooklyn man,
Mr. W. M. Hoge, who returned from
Paris not long after showing Parisians
what kind of honey America can pro-
luce. To a reporter of the New York
Sun Mr. Hoge saiefct
“I have thoroughly canvassed every
large city in Europe and America in sell¬
ing honey, and it is true that more honey
a bought for table use in and near New
York city than in any other spot in the
world. There are in New York and
Brooklyn eight concerns which deal ex¬
clusively iu honey and keep twenty-six
wagons carrying on business with the re¬
tail grocers. In this way about a tom of
boney a day is sold, or considerably over
312 tons a year. This, of course, does
not include the large quantity distributed
to outside towns by wholesale dealers.
However, while local consumption of
honey is greater in New York and vicin¬
ity than any where else on earth, the
largest general distribution is from Cali-
fornia. 1Ye shipped from Southern
California last year, mostly to Eastern
States, 900,000 pounds of extracted
honey, while 1,000,000 pounds pounds were
sent out in 18S8, 950,000 in
1887, 2,000,000 pounds in 1886, and
1,270,000 pounds in 1885. To Europe
from San Francisco last year 1745 cases
of extracted honey were sent. In the
past seven years an average pf 7500 cases
per year was sent by sailing vessels to
foreign ports, mostly to England. We
send"honey to Australia, the and Sandwich
Islands, British Columbia, even to
India. This foreign demand was aroused
by the 100 tons of American honey
which I took to England in 1877.
“To most persons honey is honey, and
nothing else,” continued Mr. Hoge,
“but there is a great diversity in the
flavor and coior, caused by the oinerent
plants from which it is gathered. It
varies as the flowers vary in the various
districts where the honey w gathered,
and, by a little practice, a blindfolded
man can distinguish the different flavors
in wir.es. Bee culture has so far pro¬
gressed of late that beekeepers,by a little
intel’igent management, can keep the
various flavors of honey separate. To
those who persist in the habit of eating
honey and hot biscuits for supper, a
slow educational process has been of ad¬
vantage in learning the different flavors
of honey, and there has oome to be a scale
of value in the market according to the
flavor. The favorite flavors are white
clover, basswood, white sage, Spanish
needle, golden rod, eucalyptus and
orange blossom. The medicinal principle
of plants, furthermore, is contained in
the honey in greater purity than the
pharmacists have yet discovered, A tea-
spoonful of honey gathered from smart- You
weed causes profuse perspiration, noticed that
remember that Xenophon Thousand, their
soldiers of the Ten on
march through Colchis, who ate honey
gathered from the poppy flower, ‘losi
their senses.’ They fell asleep through
opium eating, that was all. Honey
gathered from blossoms of the fig tree is
i laxative, while honey from the hore-
hound flower is, with many,a specific for
coughs and sore throats. It has been
discovered also that bee stings made into
a lotion are a specific for rheumatism,
gout and lumbago. I have made some
liniment myself by pulling out the bee
stiugs. The operation is naturally a de¬
licate one. I take up the bee—alive, of
course—with a pair of jeweler s
tweezers, and bv squeezing it the bee
thrusts out the sting. lliis is
grasped with another pair of tweezers
and the sting and little poison sack
pulled out. I have made, as I (relieve,
several cures of rheumatism by the aid of
the lotion.
“It is a curious fact,” continued Mr.
Hoge, “that a bee will return time after
time to the same flower, although its
hive may be a mile or more distant# How
did I discover it? By sitting down be¬
side a flower blossom, aud when a bee
alighted sprinkling a little flour on him.
While sitting and watching for the bee
to return, another strange thing I ob-
jerved. The nectar from which the bee
distils his honey gathers slowly on the
petals of the flower and forms a very tiny
drop at the bottom of the cup. If a bee
happens to alight at that instant on the
blossom be sucks the nectar into his
honey sack and flies off to the hive with
it, but if the bee does not come ju3t at
that minute then the drop of nectar is
evaporated by the sun and wind. Per¬
haps this happens il score of times in a
bee district before a bee visits a blossom.
Taking into consideration all the flowers
that bloom in this big country, and the
nectar that is evaporated only to perfume
the air,there is as much wealth lost every
summer from failure to gather the honey
ns there is gold dug out of the mines in
California. I can remember the time
when in Southern California the natural
luxuriance of plants was col checked by
crazing of cattle, and from Washington
Territory to Lower California and L*om
the Sierras to the Pacific Ocean was one
vast bee garden. For, at that time, there
we» not a bee hive in the State. Now it
is the chief honey producing State in the
Union. in
“There were no honey bees California
until C. A. Sheldon arrived in San Fran-
«i»co overland from New York city in
1853 with twelve swarms, of which but
one survived. He was followed in 1857
by J. S. Harbison, who reached Sacra¬
mento City with sixty-two colonies.
Now we estimate the crop of honey in
California for 1889 at 2,000,000 pounds
of extracted honey and 200,000 pounds
of comb honey, and it was a poor year
for honey, too. More honey ia wasted
now than there is gathered, for want of
bees to collect it.”
“How long do?s It take for bees to
gather a pound of honey?”
“That depends entirely on the nature
of the season," replied Mr. Hoge,“but it
is usually the fact that one bee with all
its industry will not,in its entire lifetime,
gather more than a teaspoonful of honey.
Reckoning eight teaspoonfuls in an ounce
the sixteen ounces in a pound of honey
would require the lifework of 128 bees.”
“Does it pay to keep bees?”
“There arc now about 300,000 bee¬
keepers in the United States whose ranks
are rapidly being re-euforced by men and
women who go into beekeeping as a hob¬
by or for experiment, and who find the
pursuit so fascinating that they soon
make it their sole occupation. There is
no danger of the country being over¬
stocked, for, on an average,every acre of
land will support a hive of bees. I know
a man, C. F. Greening, of Grand
Meadow, JRnn., who in 1877 had three
6\varms that multiplied in one year to
nineteen swarms,while Dr. C. 31. JosliD,
of Saginaw, Mich., had two swarms mul¬
tiply in one summer to thirty-four
swarms, and J. S. Marble, of Chanute,
Kan., increased one swarm to thirteen in
one season. The business often pays 100
percent., and not infrequently 500 per
cent, profit. Professor Cook, of the
Michigan Agricultural College at Lans-
sing,says he netted a profit of $2-4 a hive
in one summer. Mrs. Barker, of Lap¬
sing, estimates her profit at $19 a hive,
while J. M. Stevenson, of Crawford
County, Pennsylvania, realized $35 a
hive. Mr. J. E. Pleasants, of Los
Angeles County, California, who had
forty-five swarms one summer, tells me
he saw them multiply to 100 swarms and
got 10,000 pounds of extracted honey in
one year. A. A. Baldwin, of Sandusky,
N. Y.,reports 175 pounds of comb honey
per hive.”
“All the important improvements in
bee-keeping are of comparatively recent
invention,” continued Mr. Hoge. “A
minister of the Gospel, the Rev. L. L.
Langstroth, has done the honey-loving
world the greatest benefit by inventing
movable comb hive9, by means of which
both bees and comb may be taken out of
the hive and replaced again, with or
without the bees. Then there is a little
machine called the ‘honey slinger,’ or
‘extractor,’ which by centrifugal force
empties the honey from the comb with¬
out injury to the comb, so that it may be
returned to the hive, and the little al¬
moners of nature have nothing to do but
fill the cells again, Artificial founda-
tions for honey comb, while not my in
venlion, were first practically tested and
adopted through my recommendation.
“Italian bees were first brought to th«
United States by Park Superintendent
Samuel B. Parsons, then a horticulturist
and beekeeper in Flushing, in 1850.
There are now several dealers who re¬
ceive regular invoices of Italian bees in
summer direct from Italy. An Italian
queen bee is sold from $4 to $10. The
best queens are as yellow as gold from
head to tail, Italian bees have longer
tongues than black bees, aad arc enabled
to gather honey from flowers which can¬
not be fathomed by the black working
bees. Another thing, they are almost
proof against moth, the pest of i aney
bees; and, furthermore, they are very
prolific. It seems as if $10 is a high
price for oue bee, but it is worth the
price.”
Wonderful Balls of Crystal.
The attention of mineralogists has
again been directed to one of the most
remarkable crystal forms which are found
in Japan, and known by the name of
“God's balls ” or “divine balls. They
consist of mountain crystal, usually have
a diameter of some four centimetres, and
ure so perfectly pure and clear that the
eye cannot rest on any one part in par¬
ticular, but is compelled to take in the
whole.
Tfrej are, in fact, the perfection of na¬
ture and art. Being outirely opaque,
they reproduce with a brilliant reflection
all the outside world in their immediate
neighborhood. When placed on any
srntfjth disc which is then turned on its
own axis, the crystal, though moving
with it, appears to lie perfectly still, be¬
cause every part is so like every other
that the observer loses the appearance of
any motion, and he can only convince
himselt of the fact that motion is going
on by placing some mark upon the ball.
The Japanese signify the Godhead by
these wonderfully perfect crystal forms,of
which no parallel is known, and treasure
these balls in their temples. In the
treasure chamber of the Mikado there is
one of these balls which measures seven¬
teen centimetres in diameter. This great
national possession wa3 intended to be
shown at the International Exhibition at
Vienna, but the ship bearing the valua¬
ble burden sank in the Japanese sea.
After some years it was recovered by
the indefatigable endeavors of the divers,
and is now carefully treasured. The
crystals of which these divine bails arc-
made are furnished by the Island of
Nipon, where they are found in large and
small rocks in an irregular mass of
mountains .—Xem YoA Journal.
The latert novelty in Connecticut ia a
genuine palm tree in blossom.
GEORGIA NEWS NOTES.
#
The Louisville and Nashville has given
a mortgage of $75,000,000, covering the
entire system, to the Central Trust Com¬
pany, of New York.
The Farmers’ Alliance at Lincolnton
will open a co-operative store on October
1st with a capital of $2,000. A board of
six directors has been elected to manage
the concern.
The Central, in gobbling up the Sav¬
annah and Atlantic, formerly the Savan¬
nah and Tybee, assumes the $250,000 of
that road’s first mortgage bonds, and $50,-
000 of its second mortgage bonds.
When the Bank of Camilla was organ¬
ized, a little over six montns ago, the
shares sold for $100 each. Last week
some of those shares sold for $106. This
is a most excellent showing for the pros¬
perity of this institution.
Mr. Grimes and Collector Walter
Johnson called on Superintendent Porter,
at Washington, Tuesday, and requested
that he have a recount Mr. Porter of the promised population to
of Columbus.
examine into the case and give them an
answer within a few days.
President Northern of the Georgia Ag¬
ricultural Society, has received numerous
letters from merchants of Macon and else¬
where, notifying him that they are taking
great interest in the state fair to be held
at Macon in October next, and assuring
him that they will make largo exhibits.
Mr. R. F. Bunker, who has in charge
the work of taking the statistics of man¬
ufactories in AtUnta, has begun the work
most vigorously. The manufacturers are
aiding the enumeration with common in¬
terest and hearty co-operation, and if the
census continues as it has begun, Atlanta
will show more than two thousand manu¬
factories.
The Atlanta and Florida people are in¬
terested just now in the plaus for two
new railroads to Fort Valley. The Amer*
icus Investment Company is interested in
building forty-two miles from Cordele to
Fort Valley." Empire, Then Ga., a number buildiDg of gentle¬
men at are a new
road from Ilawkinsville to Grovania.
This is to be extended to Fort Valley.
The old carriage in which Hon. A. II.
Stephens used to ride around to make
those rousing old speeches, which now
fall od our ears irom history, will be of¬
fered for sale at Crawfordville during
court week next. It will be sold straight
out or raffled. Relic hunters will do well
to be on hand. If raffled, it will be done
in the interest of the Stephens monu¬
ment.
The returns from Towns county, re¬
ceived at the comptroller's office in At¬
lanta on Monday, settled some doubt as
to which was the poorest county in the
state. The order in which they come is;
Echols, Towns and Charlton, each show¬
ing a total valuation of a little more than
$350,000. Ninety-two counties that
have been heard from show an aggregate
increase of $14,480,613. All the large
counties are still to be beard from.
Atlanta’s elephant has arrived, She
came in on the Richmond & Danville
early Tuesday morning. Arrangements Picdmout
were made to stop the train at
park and switch the car into the enclos¬
ure, where the great beast will CDjoy a
week’s rest after her long provide! voyage from give
Hamburg. accommodation The quursers for the elephant,
ample time keep her oi
and at the tame out
sight of the public until the morniog ol
the 14th, when she will be brought out to
head the procession on the occasion ol
the midsummer festival gotten up in hvi
honor.
Tfcc Slate Alliance Meeilnif.
The indications are that there will be a
Alliance, ■— Id 8
of the State -*
in Atlanta, August 19th. It will be a
most important meeting for the alliance,
and matters of much weight will come
up for discussion and decision, The
meeting w ill be called to order in the hall
of representatives in the new capitol.
Mr. W. P. McDaniel, of Faceville, if
chairman of the committee on credentials,
and to him all county alliance repreesnta-
tives should make application roll. for The tbe
purpose of securing offered a perfect reduced
railroads have all fare*
to the delegates and visitors, and the
prospects are good for a rousing of meeting. im¬
Among the many matters great
portance that will be discussed is a
scheme, now ueing agitated, to have
built, under the auspices of tbe Alli¬
ance, a mammoth cotton-bagging factory
in some part of the state. There seems
to be no doubt entertained about the suc¬
cess of the scheme among such members
of the Alliance as are in a position to
know,ana it is very probable that the State
Alliance will take the plan in hand at
once and have the factory in operation of in
full time to supply the farmers Geor¬
gia with cotton bogging for next year’s
cr®p.
SLAVERY IN TURKEY.
THE ANGLO-GERMAX AGREEMENT Will
NOT AFFECT SLAVERY.
A dispatch from Zanzibar says: A
decree issued by the sultan announce*
that ordinances relaiing to slavery gen¬
erally will remain as binding as before
the formation of the Anglo-German is forbid¬
agreement. The sale of slaves
den, and s l nve depots are British prohibited. subject, In
ease an Arab marries a
his slaves become free. Slaves can pur¬
chase their freedom, and the master may
be compelled to sell. If an owner treat*
a slave with cruelty, be renders himself
liable to the forfeiture of bis slaves. On
the death of a slave-owner, without law¬
ful issue, his slaves shall be freed.