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UIJCE DIRECTORY,
COUNTY ALLIANCE,
u- White, vice-president, president,
nuiverhouse. secretary.
hausey, treasurer.
futrell, McGee, lecturer.
Lielly, assistant sentinel lecturer.
Hammock, Thursday in January, April,
first
d October.
jyOXVILLE ALLIANCE.
lulverhouse, vice-president, president.
’erry, secretary,
lausey, treasurer.
jndifer, lecturer.
[cGce, assistant lecturer,
Power, seatiael.
right, InLat, assistant sentinel.
third Saturdays _ each
"first and in
, tf
notice.
Copartnership.
l VP formed a cop irtnership un
fnime L of the the purp George seof W. c trying Green.- on
for in Triangular
drygoods business
AC<m, Georgia.
J. II. Timbert,ake.
Gb >..ge VV. Greene,
Homer N. Wright,
Dan Coffey,
George W. Coates.
lit II, CDBBHDGE
beral House Faraisher.
ERRY STREET, MACON, GA.
CKERY,
GLASSWARE,
rOVES & RANGES.
article warranted. Call and see
INTA i FLORIDA R. R.
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Jloudays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
T. W. GARHEIT,
Caksi^ Supe in endent.
Knoivllle. Geo. P. Howard,
pt F. and F. Agent.
WILL PAY
Wan Woman and Child
rawford and Adjoining
—bounties To Buy
HING, HATS
AND SHIRTS
to Un Clathing Store ot
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Svnday Morning.
SHEEP SKINS.
The Process of Fitting Them far
the Manufacturer.
Removing, Cleansing and Sort¬
ing the Wool for Market
R. M. Bell contributes the follow¬
ing article to Farm and Preside: I
once called on a friend who is a mem*
her of a firm engaged in handling
sheep skins. With a force of men
and experts in the wools and skins,
they were handling from 1,500 to
2,000 skins a day. These skins were
bought on the market, largely, and
were from sheep butchered for mut¬
ton. They were a motley lot of all
sorts, kinds aud varieties—coarse,
fine, white, black, spotted, young,
old, and many of them lamb skins.
The first operation was to soak
t! cm, with a view to cleansing the
wool. While wet, they were passed
through a machine which took out all
the burs, trash, lumps, etc. They
were then carefully scraped to remove
all the llesh from the flesh side of the
pelt. They were then soaked in a so-
lu:ion to loosen the wool, and then
dried by centrifugal machinery, pre¬
paratory to going to the men who re¬
moved the wool, throwing it into
separate grades as they pulled it off.
These skins had been graded carefully
before by an expert, so as to have
them as near of one sort as possible.
These skins without the wool, were
submitted to a mo-t thorough process
of cleansing aud careful soaking in
various solutions and baths to fit them
for the tanners. Tanning is quite
another process of the business, and
consists of 6umac or alum proceB es,
as iho skins may be suited to a class
of manufacture, or as may be desired
for further use.
After the entire process of fitting
for further manufacture was com¬
plete, these skins were ready for the
market as tanners’ sheep skins. If the
market was not satisfactory, they
were by an expert assorted into lots of
a dozen. These were packed into bar¬
rels, in a pickle, headed up and put
into the cellar to wait for a market.
They would stay there any length of
time, without any damage, until sold.
The wool, assorted and graded, was
passed over a screen through which
hotair was driv n from the furnace
below. The drying apparatus was
immense in size and rapid in its work.
Each grade was carefully sacked and
sent to market. Nothing was lost of
the whole pelt; what was wool was
gotten for wool. The clean skins
were for the tannery, and the rest was
used as fertilizers.
Finc-wooled skins were worth the
most money. A plain. Merino pelt
was worth as much as a coarse-woolen
pelt, plus the value of wool on it A
wrinkled, Merino pelt was worth less
as a skin, but the amount of wool on
it made it more than equal to a coarse
pelt with little wool on it. A plain
skin would sell for thirty cents; a
wrinkled Merino pelt would sell for
fifteen cents, but its larger amount of
wool made it more desirable to the
cleaners, They could well afford to
sell it at fifteen cents—onc-half the
price of the best skins.
The whole work was interesting
from first, to last, and it was novel,
besides. The wonder was, what did
they use so many sheep skins for?
The answer wa°, to make shoes,
gloves, linings, book bindings, blank
books and many other articles. Verily,
the sheep business is important.
The Two Orioles.
They were born in a nest in the elm
tree; but one day, when a rude wind
shook it, they tumbled out and fell on
the turf below, unhurt. Tom picked
them up, and, putting them into a
cage which he made, hung it in the
piazza, and gave them seeds and
water. But the old birds were wor¬
ried about their babies; they came
and perched on the cage, and flew
about it, chattering to them, and sing¬
ing a little. By and by they flew off,
and came back with worms and flies
to feed them, they did this day after
day, till the birdfings grew plump and
big; I suppose the mother bird felt
sad to leave them when it came time
for her to go South, though they
were grown-up birds now.
Tom made a little well of their
drinking cup. He sunk it in the bot-
tom of the cage and built a little euro
about it. Then he taught Fluffy to
dip the water up, whenever he wanted
a drink, by means of a little toy pail
which he had fastened to a tiny well-
sweep. It took Fluffy a long time to
learn this lesson. Downy was not so
finely educated, and perhaps he did
not like to hear Fluffy praised for
drawing water in his pail, or perhaps
he found it hard to reach the water
himself with his small bill, when he
was thirsty and the water was low;
but he began to pick up small stones
among the sand which Tom had
strewed on the bottom of the cage, and
drop them carefully into the little
well, one by one, till it w r as filled up.
Which do you think was the smarter
bird?—[Ladies’ Home Companion.
How Pennies Are Made.
The eyes of the average visitor to
the Philadelphia mint -are attracted in
the room where the counting is done
by great boxes filled to overflowing
with beautiful shiny yellow disks as
yet unstamped. Usually she people
say something to the effect that they
wish they could only be permitted to
carry oil’ .heir pockess full and so bo
rich for life. Were the permission
given them, however, they would not
bo able to live very long on the pro¬
ceeds, inasmuch as the disks are in
reality only bright copper pennies, or
rather blanks for pennies. These
blanks are made by contract, a firm in
Connecticut supplying the government
with them at a trifle less than one-
tenth of a cent apiece. They come to
the mint and are stamped there with
the Indian’s head and the obverse in¬
scription.
Thus you sec that our pennies are
meiely tokens and not worth anything
like face value. Blanks for fivc-cent
pieces are turned out in like manner
by conti act, and it only costs Uncle
Sam a cent and a half to produce a
nickel. Silver dollars, halves, quarters
aud dimes are worth now intrinsically
nearly nine-tenths of their face value,
while the mere gold in all our gold
pieces is worth a dollar for every dol¬
lar marked on the faces of tho coins,
the ten per cent, of copper and the
cost of minting being a free gift to
the people—[Washington Star.
Strong Men in Arctic Circles.
Among the Tchouktehis, in Siberia,
I found a great many strong men,
says R. W. Gilder in tho New York
Sun. Like the Eskimo, when making
an extraordinary effort, they would
supplement their hands by seizing
whatever they had to hold between
their short, strong teeth. One day 1
saw an exhibition of this peculiar
kind of strength among these people
that 1 never saw equalled, though
Richard J. Bush, in the story of his
experience among the Gillaks of Sibe¬
ria, a very similar race, records having
witnessed the same feat. 1 had a box
of crackers on one side of my sleds,
and the lid being nailed on tightly and
no hatchet handy, I said to my driver:
‘•I guess we won’t have any bread to¬
night, Inaidlin. We can’t open the
box.”
But Inaidlin did not propose to be
deprived of his bread on account of a
trifle like that, so stooping down he
gnawed the wood immediately sur¬
rounding each nail, so that he could
get a good hold with his teeth and ac¬
tually pulled out sufficient of them
in that way to remove the lid. That
his teeth were not damaged thereby
was clearly shown by the way in
which he crunched and devoured an
ewra allowance of hard tack which
the box contained, that I gave him as
a reward for his extraordinary ser¬
vices.
The t’onsumplion of Opiates.
Said a well-known druggist to me
recently: “You would be astonished
were you to know the exact amount of
morphine and opium 6old in one week
by the local druggists. The consump¬
tion of these drugs is simply enor¬
mous, and the results are appalling.
We never have less than a half dozen
calls for the poison in one day. On
Saturday nights one of our clerks is
*cpt busy attending to nothing but the
filling of orders for opium, morphine
in liquid and powdered state, aud t.;e
poisonous extract of the poppy plant
in every form. The negroes are be¬
coming the largest consumers of the
drugs, ami on the night mentioned
half of the orders are brought in by
little negro children.”-- i r Louisville
Post.
r. rf. WRIGHT. w. j* iiin.
WRIGHT & ALLEN,
-DEALERS IN-
Dry Goods, Groceries,
Hats, Shoes,
HARDWARE AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES.
We can furnish you with High Grade
fertilizers, the best on the market. Try
them. Best quality Corn, Hay, Oats, Bran.
Our stock of Ladies’ Goods is complete, and
we extend a cordial invitation to call and inspect
same, You will be pieused with what we have
to show you.
ROBERT COLEMAN. B. hi. It AT*
COLEMAM & RAY,
Mu Factors aid [emission lentous.
-DEALERS IN-
roceries, Provis ons, Planters’ Supplies and Fertilizers,
MACOU, GSORGIA. Buggies, &<•., *
We also u i n. o «.n c-rh's. beg mg, i i<-. Wa -i.h,
cnrrv n GEORGIA.
KNOXVIIiliB, at Knoxvi le, which
Mr. J. W. .lack w..| be in elm go - f our I twin*"'*
A.ite" of bir h n' st and CMiirlcot’s treatment. We solicit patiouago o
r7 iy
KNOXVILLE
Hill SCHOOL
SJTtlNG TERM.
Opens January 13
Closes ... June 27
FALL TERM.
Opens....... .....September 1.
Closes....... ......December 10.
Rate of tuition for AH Classes. $2 pel
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 cheerfully fur¬
nished by
C. C. POWER,
Princinal.
THE HARRIS HOUSE,
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Alw ays open to public patronage. We
try to please our guests. Comfortable
Room aud good Fare. Free hack to and
from Depot.
Z, T. HARRIS,
Proprietor.
ff.T.Shiiiliolser&Eay
DEALERS IN
Foreign and Domestic Groceries^
Fruits, Vegetables, Canned
Goods. Sugar, Coffee, Poultry,
Butter, Eggs, Ac.
Whiskies, Brandies, Wines, Beer, Ac.
We pay the highest price for Chickens,
Eggs, Butter and Country Produce.
Parties wishing to purchase family gro¬
ceries, produce, &c., will tind wo Bell al
lowest prices.
Call and see us at Nos. 603 to 608 Fourth
street, nearly opposite Brown House
and Passenger Depot,
MACON, GA.
1 7
RIVIERE & AVANT
Dealers in all kinds of
PINE LUMBER, Ac.
Our mills are now situate five mile,
east of Knoxville, in the midst of the
very beet heart pine.
We offer our lumber at the very lowest
prices, and will deliver at the mills or at
poy point on the railroad.
All Orders Filled Promptly.
Try us.
KNOXVILLE, GA.
7
MATH JS & MAIMS,
WARS HOUSE
And Commission Merchants,
KNOXVILLE, GO.
Within 20 Yards of Depot.
We are prepared to handle COTTON
at lowest pri> es, and guarantee highest
prices to sellers.
TRY TTJEJ.
8. S. DUNLAP, II. M. WORTH AN,
President. Vice-President
K. E. STEED,
Secretary .and Treasurer.
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IH
Hardware, Cutlery,
Iron, steel, Stoves
and Tinware.
Carriage and
Wagon Agricultural Material, Impli*
ments, Mechanic’s
Tools, &c., &c.
Agents Howe’s Standard Scales, P. H.
Starkes, Dixie Plows and Planet Jr. Cul¬
tivator. 150 and 152 Third St.,
8m Macon, Ga.
MALPASS & BUSSEY,
-DEALERS IN—
FINE LIQUORS, WINE?, BEER,
Soda Water,
CigarTobacco and Candy.
We keep none but the best, and can
•upply you with anything from a drink
of Soda Water to a gallon of Imported
Fren- h Brandy.
W ost Kuo vlllo, Grft
Ji*tv SfciLlu DttM tv
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PBOFESSIONAL CARD8.
R. D, Smith. W. P. BlaMngame >
SMITH & BLASINGAME,
attorneys at law,
Knoxville, Ca.
Pro apt and faithful attention given to
all business entrusted to their care.
MOSEY CHEAP AND EftSY.
(o)
If you want CHEAP AND QUICK
MONEY, on easy and liberal terms, you
can get it by calling on
W. P. BLASINGAME,
Attorney at Law,
Knoxville, Ga.