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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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3Fl. X). SMITH cfc SON
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM.
Official Organ of Crawford County.
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KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Entered at the postoffice at Knoxville,
Ga.. as second-class matter.
Sitting Bull has been k lied by th
Ind an police,
The force bill still hangs fire.
The legislature is g tting in some good
work now.
The force bill seems to be about dead,
the late election killed it.
The boodlers in the South Carolina
Legislature.have defeated Wide Hamp¬
ton for the United States Senate.
p” Governor Northen is rapidly proving to
the people of Georgia that he is governor
and that he can.-iat be controlled by out¬
side influences.
One of the best diy’s woik ever done
by the present legislatur • was to refuse
to continue the appropriation to the branch
colleges. There ought to be a branch
college in every section of the State, d, so
as to be accessible to every chi or
they ought to be wlp d out and the
money used for the support of the com¬
mon schools. We object to the money
of the entire people of the State being
used for the benefit of only a few.
McCann was in Atlanta during the
senatorial campaign doing h s best to
elect Pat (athoun, a monopolist. His
conduct was such that the National Alli¬
ance investigated him aud it turned out
that he had borrowed $2,000 from Cal¬
houn, and was riding on a free pass over
his railroads. A nice man to put down
coriuption aud to purify politics.
An attempt is being made to bu!I-doz c
the Legislature into paying betterments.
They say that if it is not paid, the old
lessees will make trouble and refuse to
deliver the property, and that the new
lessees will refuse to carry out the con¬
tract. It seems to be forgotten that the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad owns
the old lease, aud are a so the new les¬
sees. We do not see how they can do a
thing aud then turn around and refuse to
carry out their contract ou the said
ground that they have done this thing.
The fact is that they are entitled to
no betterments. They obtained
the lease by fraud, and the
S ate lost $138,600 a year for twenty
years, making $2,7G1,,000 that to-day
the lessees honestly owe. The first
Dcm >cratic Legislature after the lease
investigate ! the matter and found the
lca^e was obtained by fraud and bribery.
Th" preseut lessees only bid $25,000 a
month; another company, headed by
S 'ago & Dobbins, bid $36,500 a month
or $11,500 a month more than the
Brown gang and yet on the flimsy ex¬
cuse that Brown & Co. had tendered a
better bond the larger bid was rtfused
aud the smaller bid was accep’ed. The
The legislature of 1881 investigated the
bond and found that far from having a
better bond than the Seago, Dobbins Co.
that Brown’s c i mp my had n > bond at all.
Not satisfied widi thus d frau Lng the
State ot $2,670 000.00 they now conic in
and demaud $550,000,00 for betterments,
and threiten to break the new lea^e un¬
less it is paid. This argument seems to
alarm some of the Legislators, but we ap¬
prehend there are cn >ugh honest and
fearless members there *o prevent the
State being robbed. These same lessees
tried to bulldoze the last L gislatureaod
failed and we think th-y will meet the
same success with this one.
Longest Word on Record.
General Charles E. Furlong, who lives
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, aud is known
os one of the great travelers of the age,
having been five times around the world,
told me that while in Llandudno, Wales,
last summer, he struck the longest word
on record. When I asked him what it
was he respou cd by pulling have copied out a
printed slip, from which I
the “LtanfairpwUgwymgydgogcrychwmd- word, as follows:
robwHtlandisinogogogoch. tell that this the
He went on to me is
nfiui'ot' it u
tlic oniv the parish, in every
dav use among the peopU in referring to
the parish, and is aU one word, spoken natives
witi ont break or pause. The
call the place Ll&nftur. but there are so
many other L'.anfa'rs in Wales that s me
desc ription has to be added in postal ad-
dress 's. A literal translation of the word
is, “The Church of St. Mary, in a hollow
of white hazel, near to the rapid whirl-
I tool, aud to St. Disilio Church, near to a
red cave.”—(New \ork Press.
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THE WORLD OF THE DEEP.
Exult, expand, aspire!
Leap higher, ever higher!
Mishty thou art, and trea
And tverlastiug, sea.
Over thy foam I pass,
And see me in thy glas-y
i.nJ give my mind unto thee for a day;
Then like the brief bright sheen
Of thy disturbed green,
I go, but leave thy Lliiheness here alway.
The song that now I hear
M as in the listening ear
Of my forefathers in old years forgot;
Over thy bosom bold
The waves have rompe 1 and rolled
Since the deep-buried days when man vras
not,
Thy voice the earth around
Unbroken then did sound
Dim through the gray and ghostly times;
Thou feltest not alone,
But laughed, and lit, and shone,
And rolled thy gathered grandeur meath all
climes.
Thy fierceness, far unfurled
In foam o’er the world.
Doth broadly base the b.ue o’er-blown im¬
mense,
And round each bright green isle
Thy swift, glad waters smile,
And vastly dash their dark magnificence.
Roll and rejoice!
Sweet is thy varied voice.
Thy hoarse, subdued and central roar.
Or where thou call’st thy loud love to the
shore.
f understand thy grief, O sea!
Thy inonochordof moan is known to me;
Thou would’st uprise,
Drown and blot out the skies—
Around the globe’s great girdle clash com-
plete,
And inlay alone beneath the sun, thy lover
sweet.
Gaily thy breast upbears
Alan and his little cares;
In sp ire thou send’st him to a far delight;
Save that when—sel -immersed,
U ith consciousness accursed,
Abandoned to thy bigness and gone mad
with might,
Wild with self-wonder,
Deaf to aught but thine own thunder,
Each wave to voice thy vastness strives—
Thou dost forget suc-h little things as lives,
And, absent-minded, rise
And bubble in his eyes.
Far huddled in to land
Affrighted let him stand,
Or creeping to the shore and clinging fast,
There, where thy lusty shocks
J ar the gigantic rocks,
Let him pear outward o’er thy purple vast.
—Howard Hall, in Bcljord's Magazine.
ALMIRA’S WEDDING.
by helen fobrest GRAVES
••Look, like „ ™ goi„. t0 ho , .
■L i il•, -a fr °! u A tbe Leaader barnyard p «PP with Ie >
. two , brimming . pails of milk.
Across the west glowed a bar of sullen
hoarsely in^he^carteGleaved maplesmnd
sssais.tr-- Almiry,
“There’s diggin’uo her
dahlia bulbs—she d a great deal better
be gettm’m potatoes, or harvestin’field-
corn. What do them posies amount to,
anyhow? I never could see no use of
’em. I say, Almiry!”
< i Yes, father!”
The girl straightened herself up, flushing
as guiltily as if her little piece of amateur
gardening were a State’s prison offense,
and instinctively tried to conceal her
trowel in the folds of her faded calico
“What ye foolin’ away your time
for?” snarled the old man. “What with
the days growin’ shorter and this wed-
din’nonsense crowdin’ everything else
outen your head, there don't nothin’ get
done about the house. Ain’t supper
read ? ? ”
“les, father, quite . ready. The kettle's
boiling, and I'll make the coffee in a
minute.”
“The kettle boiling! Gracious me!”
groaned the farmer. “She talks as if
fire-wood growed ready chopped on every
bush. We aiu’t millionaires, to keep
fires roarin’ up every chimbley in the
house jest to bile a cup o’ coffee. It
docs appear to me you grow more waste-
ful and extravagant every day. I wish
George Storey joy of His bargain, ° I’m
sure!”
Almira sighed.
“It don't take much fuel to keep the
Sfe going, father,” said she, “and I
picked it up myself in the woods. But,
speaking of my marriage--”
“Yes, speaking of your marriage,”
contemptuously repeated the old man;
“and I wish to'goodness it was over and
done with! I'm sick o’ bearin' on't!”
“Ain't you going to give me a wed-
ding, father, as other girls’relations do?”
“I dunno what ye’d have,” said
j Meander It Popple. good “There's enough the for best
room. was your
mothcr to be marricd in . ! don - t 6ee
thy it won't dotcr you."
| vou kD0 "' 1 diJn ' 1
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tba ^
I “Humph! growled , , the f farmer. “I
j know what you mean. 3 ou want a lot
\ o' chickens killed—chickens thr.tTl fetch
1 twenty cents a pound, feathers and all—
! *nd cake baked with flour and raisins at
j double pi ice, aud all the neighbors in-
rited in to eat and drink at my expense!
i w t U f you can't have it, so that settles
matters!”
] nu SC j a n the chickens, father, and
I did every hand’s turn of the work my«
self in harvesting-time this summer, and
saved you all the expense of a girl!”
cried indignant Almira.
“It warn't uo more than your duty at
that,” said the sour old man. “If you're
bound to get married, get married. I
caD't prevent that. But I ain’t no notion
o' spendin’ money on no such tomfoolery,
nor as long as i’m in my sober senses.
And I've told you so before, and you
know perfectly well I’ve been a-savin
and scrimpin’ every cent to buy back
that ’ar thirteen acres of land that I was
blamed fool enough to sell to Squire
Storey last year, jest because it jibed
onto the northeast corner of his farm.”
Almira colored.
j “Father,” said she, “you've got a
hundred and ninety acres already,
What do vou want any more farm-land
for?”
Leander’s eyes scintillated with dull,
covetous light. He paused from his oc-
| cupaiion of removing half-charred sticks
from the lire with a pair of rusty tongs,
and putting them on one side for future
use, instead of allowing them to burn
out in feathery drifts of ashes, and con-
fronted his daughter. he.
“I'll tell you why, Almiry,” said
“I’ve discovered a secret. I found it
out last spring when I was quarryin’ out
that there rock for the barn cellar wall
that Squire Storey told me I was wel¬
come to. There's gold in that iedge o’
rock—lots on it. Deacon Howe’s grand¬
father always stuck to it there was gold
in the sile hereabouts, but nobody never
believed him. And I was idiot enough
to sell that thirteen acres to old Storey
for fifty dollars au acre. But I’ve kept
my tongue between my teeth, and I’ve
tlriv’ a bargain, and all but bought it
back at seventy-five dollars an acre.
Old Storey he thinks I’m a fool, but I
guess time'll show that. If any one's
bein’ cheated it ain’t me?”
“Supper's ready, father,” said Almira,
as she placed the chunk of cold-boiled
beef, smothered in coarse kale greens, on
the table, with a loaf of rye bread, a pat
of butter—which was not quite yellow
enough for market—-and a bowl of scant-
ily sweetened apple-sauce, and poured
out the cheap inf usion which the village
grocer considered a good enough article
of coffee to give in exchange for Farmer
Popple's damaged buckwheat and gnarly
apples. added lie
“And so,” the farmer, as
sat down aud helped himself, courteously
leaving Almira to do the same, “I ain't
gom to scatter no money to the right
nor to the left, till I get that matter paid
up.
Almira glanced at him from beneath
her eyelashes.
“But, father,” she said, nervously
stirring her coffee, “what do you want of
gold mines? Of what use is money to
you? Haven't you all you need?”
Old Leander Popple uttered a short,
“T 1 ; “*»“
“To put in the bank, to be sure!”
uy ou bave cnou<rh - to eat and to
drink! „
, , .
sa ! d Po ^ e *'" “ And r “ ^
“Fnv-r .
n \\ T, ^ ... e l ,, bows P°‘ . scd ,
?“ 1 tV! d kmfe . f 3ud f ° rk u * )llfted
If your going „ tn to make . so much ,
won t, you give me, your only
weddln S such as othcr 2 irls
_U uVn ’ T 1 U WaS the decidcd ,
rep ;
Almira . said Leander Popple
no more.
weat on .seeling beef and greens into
, bl? ca l>acious mouth, and washing them
down Wlth weak cofft!e *
“1 guess I’ve made her understand this
time, . said he to himself.
But when he lighted his tallow candle
for bed < Almira spoke once more.
‘‘ Fatb ^’ 8aia 8he > atu to be mar -
ned . on Thursday.
He started a little.
“Here?” said he.
“Yes, father. You said I might at
least have the use of the room in which
my mother was married.”
“I hain’t no objection to that,” said
P°Ppl e > slowly, as if he were still con-
sidering the matter. “But I guess you’d
better take up them breadths o’ rag car¬
P c f‘ ^ P a ' d Desire Hutchings a round
P r * ce f° r weavin’ em, and I hain’t no
notion of havin ’em trampled out with
Virginia reels and that sort o’ scamperin’
dances.”
“I’ll take up the carpet, father,” said
Almira. “And I shall furnish the music
and refreshments myself, since you refuse
to do a father's duty.”
“Who's to foot the bill?” sharply
questioned 3Ir. Popple. “Mind, I
j won’t. pride to And ask favors I hope lrom you’ve them Storeys.” too much
; “I likely to humiliate myself,
am not
father, further than I have already done
in asking favors from you,” said Almira.
“-No; the bills shall be paid out of my
own pocket.” money!”
> “Whore did you 3 e.«,
mho. firter-hMert, mi«.r
‘ “ G ^;f ,T C v « been writm for tnc
papers! surewdiy uttered the farmer.
1 “No, father; but I’ve sewed at odd
| times for Mrs. Dailey, and I helped Jane
Dockett in the dyeing business, and I
learned from Desire Hutchings to weave
rag carpets in a loom. I have earned a
httle money here and there.”
i “And you can’t be easy unless you can
spend it, eh?” growled her father,
i “Well, well, be a fool if you want to!
Arter next Thursday evenin it II bo
George Storey s business, not, mine, .
Almira colored,
“You're glad to get rid of me, father,
said she. “That s very evident. But
but you might speak a word or two of
kindness to me, now that I am so near
leading you!” speakin’ the truth,” said
“I b’iieve in
Poppie, grimly. “Gals is a great ex-
pense, and ef you’d been a boy—”
But Almira stayed to hear no more,
After the dim candle spark had gone
out in the old man’s chamber window,
j and the pile of ashes ou the kitchen
hearth was gray and dead, Almira softly
stole out of the hall door among the
frost bitteu dahlias and dusty lilac trees.
“Well, pet?”- uttered a deep voice,
j close to the gate don't!” post.
“Oh, George,
<< Why shouldn't I kiss you, dearest?
; Only four days now! Did you tell him?”
j I him. Is it really so,
George? Is he buying back that land ?
“At an advance of fifty per cent.!
chuckled George Storey, leaning back
against the fence to laugh. “He would
have ifc - My dear I shall be marrying an
heiress, after all!”
“But ought we to allow it?”
“How can we help it, Allie? He
drives the bargain with my father, who
is the nominal holder of the land. He
asks no one's advice, and is mortally of¬
fended if anybody ventures to make a
suggestion.” when the title
“But he must know
deeds are executed?”
“Well, let him. Isn't it his own
doing?” retorted the young man. “Just
consider the whole thing, Almira. Hero
is this thirteen acres of land originally
belonging to your mother, which she al¬
ways desired should be yours. Mr. Pop¬
ple resolutely refuses to give you so much
as a head of timothy grass off it. You
secretly toil and work to earn a little
and , secretly , intrust . it . to
money, as my
father, who, acting as your agent, makes
^he purchase, so that you will not come
penniless to me, you proudest of little
princesses! (No, I won't do it again.)
But you see you are wealthier than you
supposed. The stony-hearted miser who
grudges you a decent wedding (one more
kiss, sweetest!) is buying back the land
; nt nn advance, and you are unconsciously
becoming a speculator. IIow I shall en-
joy his amazement when he realizes mat-
tersl”
The old Popple farmhouse was all
, alight that October night ; the rude
| Nvooden mantles were backed with dah-
1ms, zinnias and white asters; the village
musicians plied their instruments in the
ia ’ tnc table in the low-ceiled dining-
room was spread ivith frosted cakes,
baked b 7 Almira's sympathizing girl
“ Ief ids, fruit baskets, arranged by tue
Soholar9 she had taught in Suuday-
school; viands prepared by her future
aad s * sters -in-law.
Le, “ der l00ked wi,U ><>«**
“All waste and folly!” said he. “Is
tbc S ir lnmd? Never mind; after to-day
she’ll be no responsibility of mine. Let
George Storey take the care of her then!”
plJacfcdS rrsrir** bX^rffingTo Mml^he’r
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“Kissin’ ain’t in my'line,” said Lean-
der Popple. “However, I don’t object
to shakin’ hands with you. You’ve
spent a deal of unnecessary money to-day,
but I’ve done a tol’able good stroke o’
business too r VP „ a i f i Hip W
m3ne y into bank for that wistfully auarrv ^"her around ”
The bride looked hus-
band as she turned away,
“He has told me his secret, George ”
she murmured, “and if any one is to
have the gold, I am glad it is to tie he ”
“Gold?” said George, with a shru- of
the shoulders. “Not a grain of gold is
I to be found within forty miles! He’s too
avaricious to consult a mineralogist °What and
I too opinionated to ask advice he
fancies to be gold is merely a vein of iron
pyrites—as useless as so much <dl himself! t paper
He has simply out-roanamvered
and you, mv darling, have come into
your own little fortune through his absurd
folly?”
So Almira Popple had her discovered! wedding
after all, and old Leander
when it was too late, that he had
helped to enrich George Storey’s wife.
But to this day he holds out that the
metallurgists are all wroug, and that he
has a gold mine on his property in spite
of everything.
“Though,” he says, “ if I’d knowed it
was Almira's land, I’d lia’ made her let
me have it a deal cheaper .”—Saturday
Night.
The Highest in the World.
The new Masonic building now being
erected in Chicago will be an architect
tural marvel. It is to have a frontage of
one hundred and seventy feet, a depth of
one hundred and fourteen feet, will be
twenty stories high, and the roof will be
nearly three hundred feet from the level
of the street.
There are to be eiafcteen elevators
1 ranged in a semicircle, having a total
j carrvin- capacity of forty Uourand pas-
j
| high The by ratn. twenty-eight 0 ce is to bo wide, forty-two feet
and the
j rotunda, with an area of three thousand
1 oeven hundred square feet, will be open
to the roof, where visitors will fiud a
j pavilion garden view from, which they can get
a bird’s eyo of all crcitioa__ Nem
York Herald.
A monster lobster, weighing twelve
pounds, was found on the beach at Watch
Hill, Coon., the other day.
ALLIANCE ^
NEWS OF THE ORDER and
MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN the Tab
SECTIONS FOB TIIE advanceme
TIIE GREAT organization -pi. ni
FROM THE REFORM PRESS.
T e California State Alliance U i
organized at Sa i Jose, Ihirtee a o
ties being represented.
* *
At Ocala the sub-treasury pi an
adopti d and will continue toV a
lying cry of the Alliance. The r }.:
it, what 1 tile there ' je<
to » as seen
made but little impression ,
have
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V rious prominent Kansas F
Alliaucemen mentioned in recent
patches as having been concerned
plot to disintegrate the southern j, ,J
racy by supporting thesubtreasuy 1
merit at the Farmers’ Alliauceconv t
laugh at the story Messrs. Willett* voted"'] d
and others said that they belie]
subtreasury bill because they
it.
*
The Nempaper (California, Mo.,j
up the los-i aud g .in thusly: “j’
cent election in Missouri the Demo
party cast 11,932 less votes than j
two years ago. The Republicans can
002 less. The Prohibitionists cast
less, whilst the Uuiou Labor parti
G,4G5 more votes than it did two
ago. Look out for a Kansas evclo
this State in ’92.”
* *
The National Citizens Alliana
formed at the recent convention st(
Fla., by the adoption officers: of a platted p]
the election of these Ralph] .J
den, of Kansas, president; uJ
mout, o! New York, secretary,
Wild, of Washington, treasurer 11
t i ie Iccen t elections the Citizens All
were formed in Kansas, Nebrask
Iowa as auxiliaries to the Farm®
ance movement. It comprises p tj
the cities, towns and villages,!
object is to promote the
pies of the St. Louis Pis
Outside of the officers
L to be an executive committee •:
. each
j big of one f rom State and Ta
Offices are to be opened in Was!
’d onee, and a weekly paper will
tablished. The organization nil
roimu anchesaTtWbiffid ions w it i t le km
thVLaTb thed
coalition with either of
' organization
{)a rt j es . The
temporary. As soon as a man
States are organized a national a I
tion will be held.
A dispatch of Thursday effects frm
do, Kansas, says: The
alliance movement in Kansas are
beginning to be felt. Two yei
the Kansas state senate appointed portio
mittee to revise c- rtain s
isting state laws. The committee
posed of five republicans. The coi
w r ill hold its last meeting the at Topcj govej
will present its report to comniiitj
Senator Murdock, of the
the report abolishes a dozen
b ards; consolidates half a dots
boards; revises the laws regard! aJ
control of the state normal Hutchil
agricultural colleges and
formatory; decapitates Washington Sum (|
state ageut the at of
down number
district judges about one-fourth
sales, state and county provides printinj
kinds, 50 per cent; voting
Australian system of '
election of a state board of rail*
mi'sioners; provides thatthestat! H
6( hoolbooks of uniform text, nn<|
hauls the system of taxation
imnt, and puts it on a and bona «d fij :ll
cuts down the fees j
county officers, except coroners
rai-siouers, and affects coustal
justices of the peace’s fees. 1-1
>uvs Mr. Murdock, if adopted! fl
acted into law will save the
Kansas $800,01)0 in taxes annul
all of the committee are republj redeil
as the report is simply recent a
iiean pledges made in the republic*®
platform, the
cannot refuse to adopt it. J
CONDITION OF TR
■UN * CO’S. REPORT FOB
WEEK.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly rf
The business outlook is n> pr!
But the pa-t disturbance an' p
uncertainty are felt in the rtf
ume of business throughout M
which, though slightly ! ar o er 1
ngo, no longer shows
until recently maintained. in Pj
reports fair business, s
a cottoM
ontinuing decline in 1
move freely at Savannah
Jacksonville, and sugar, Cl
He- at New’ Orleans, all at
llie fupply of money is ampj
•utiesat New light. Orleans, At but the aUj n^I
money is Uj
weather has helped trade. J
tion increased in No vim
183,846 tons on December compel
over 14,000 tons manufacture as
year. Cotton af
bictorv. and some works ■ ^
iroduction. Failures f« r 1 ”
147, again-t 266 for the &
reck hist year.
• Ths ratio of passengers ki-
rengera earned is, in
the Continent, less than 01
proportion of America.