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ms PUBLISHED WEEKLY. r —BY— 3Fl. X). SMITH cfc SON SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM. Official Organ of Crawford County. - 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. I 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 - 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 - - “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 *** 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.