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I I rHEfiP MONEY. A t0 negotiate loans at six am P re P 5 interest, as parties may . fere. M £ & „pv l can be repaid D. at Smith. any time " ii. -— IMPS' DIRECTORY. n^TW fit I ^ mijVaVmi ---- COUNTY 1 t,. ALLIANCE. h‘ J^„ .j„ nt G Culverhouse, W. \ te ’ vice p re3 ij, - at • H. secretary. fc \ Causey, treasurer Futrell, lecturer [p. L McGee, ^tanUecturer. P DanieHj, f^tirs^Thursday * in January, April, 1 \ au A October. “ ___ 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.