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VOL. 2.
ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS.
GA THERED FOR THE CORRE¬
SPONDENTS READERS.
The Happenings-of the Week Put
in Short , Pointed Paragraphs—
What Has Happened and Is Go¬
ing to Happen—Points Political ,
Personal and Social—Men and
Thinas.
Robert Reynolds visited Macon
Monday.
Will Smith went to Atlanta
Saturday.
Mrs. Trammell returned home
last Sunday.
No property sold at sheriff’s
sale on Tuesday.
Hon. B. W. Sanford was in
town this week.
Some of our people attended
Butler campmeeting.
Capt. W. W. Johnson was
down recentl y on business.
Col. R. D. Smith went to At¬
lanta Monday on business.
Walter Champion, son of Mr.
J. I. Champion, is very sick with
billious fev er.
Mr. J. E. Jordan has been on
the sick list this week.
Miss Bessie Smith has returned
from Macon after a stay of some
time.
Jerry McGee has fixed up for a
big supply of turnips from his lot
in Roberta.
Louis Anderson came down
from Monroe Monday and spent
the day in town.
Our subscription list is growing
every day. We would like to
double this week.
Miss Minnie Ilicks spent Sun¬
day in Knoxville with relatives
and friends.
Legal blanks will be printed
at this office and furnished at low
prices. Give us a trial.
The Board of County Commis¬
sioners met Tuesday and trans¬
acted important business.
Samuel Rutherford, Esq., was
in Knoxville this week in atten¬
dance upon Ordinary’s court.
It is natural to find fault in
others. We are not quite near¬
sighted enough to see our own.
The Knoxville school opened
Monday, our same teachers in
charge. AU wish for a good
school and the way to have ife is
to patronize it.
James A. Eubanks came over
from Bibb Monday on business
and kindly gave the paper his
subscription.
The paper puts on a new face
this week. It will continue to
improve all along from time to
time—day to day. Give us your
support.
Judging from present appear¬
ances a large part of the present
crop of cotton in this section will
foe carried to Macon for market.
The general cry is hard times.
Devote complaining time to
thought and work and note the
improvement.
Gene Trammell is having some
scales fixed up near the cotton
seed warehouse. This will be a
convenience to the public for
weighing.
Prof. J. D. Smith and Miss Ida
Grubb, the excellent teachers of
the Knoxville High School, re¬
turned to Knoxville last week
after a few weeks vacation spent
::t ih -ir reqKriivoTmme ! am.! tto
THE CORRESPONDENT
ROBERTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 81898.
H. D. McCrary is now engaged
as clerk with Jordan JBros.
Messers Has Hicks and Add
Harris visited Macon Sunday.
The post office has been chang
ed from the depot to Mrs. Carnes’
store.
Miss Emma Stembridge spent
Sunday at Sandy Point visiting
friends.
Mr. Perk Williamson is over
making preparations to begiii
business.
Mr. W. T. Bussey and his law
yer D. G. Dominick, are m town
on business this week.
Messrs. T. F. Dennis, Perk
Wilhamson, George Williamson,
of Butler, were in Roberta
Wednesdaj T .
The courthouse will have some
good vaults for the preservation
of its records before a lapse of
much more time.
W. I. Powell, of Reynolds, the
wide-awake merchant, was in the
city, Wednesday, looking after
business interest.
The cotton market will open up
O. K. in a very short time. All
arrangements haye been made
and on a solid basis.
Messrs. W. P. Allen, J. J. Wil
liams. J. N. Mathews, R. D.
and O. P. Wright went up
the Gate City Wednesday.
Times are brightening. Money
getting easier. Faces are grow
shorter. Let the dead post
assigned its resting place.
Job printing is done at this of
Patronize your home paper
give us yeur work. It will
done neatly and at low figures.
Let’s keep out of a grumbling
spree unless every one joins in.
One man can’t do his own Way in
all things, every where at. all
limes.
Our warehouse will charge the
planter only ten cents per bale
for weighing cotton. This is
handling the crop at low figures
and The Correspondent bespeaks
for the proprietors liberal patron¬
age.
Sheriff Culverhouse, Will
Pierce and Will Lowe went out
on the river Wednesday on a
squirrel hunt. The sheriff says
squirrels are plentiful a»d mos¬
quitos most plentiful.
Mark Carnes has given up the
depot agency at this place and R.
E. Hollingsworth takes his place.
Mark has held the place since the
fir9t days of the road and in his
retiring from it the company
parts with a good man.
This office is equipped in firstj
class style to do job work of all
kinds. Parties who have placed
orders with us are pleased with
the work and orders still come in.
Let us have your work. This is
a city outfit and satisfaction is
guaranteed to all people of rea¬
son.
The town needs a little beef
market and it would not do much
hurt to mix in other meats and
other articles of food usually dis¬
posed of in a market. If some
person were,.however, to startjone
and make five cents out of it,
then every other smart Aleck,
and this is a tadpole class num¬
erically considered, would come
in with a pawn on a ten cents
straw hat and break it down, if
the poor thing could.
Farmers have your cotton gin¬
ned at Blasingame & Bond’s big
gin now in Roberts. Hidnvt
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The Knoxville school is increas
in number every day,
Slate Hill, of Reynolds, was in
Roberta the other day.
Roberta’s school is flourishing,
Keep your eye on Roberta and
The Correspondent —both grow
ing every day.
The little folks must have
excursion. Kind people in At
lanta had arranged an elegant
programme for their enjoyment
Wednesday and promise to keep
it in force until they go.
Joe G. Wilbourn, the popular
general agent for the State, of
The Home Life Insurance Com
pan y, 0 f New York, is in town
this week looking after its inter¬
ests. The company is old, well
established and particular, perfectly reli¬
able in every and it
has in Joe Wilbourn an agent
that knows and does the square
thing. This company insures on
a plan dividends that enables it to pay lar¬
ger than any other,
Joe will tell you all about it
next week through the columns
of this payer. Space taken and
reserved.
SALUTATORY.
With last weeks issue the
undersigned assumed the
aland business control of the
Correspondent. It is not by and
means, work of a kind in which
he is inexperienced nor upon
which he is afraid to enter. Of
course the regulations and rules
that govern the weekly papers of
the state will be observed by this
one i * n 80 ^ ar as same thd
strictly in accord with the right,
I* 1 matters social, political
and material, it wiliadbere with¬
out reserve to the course deemed
best for our section and its peo¬
ple. No enterprise of any kind
whatever can prosper without
patronage and consequently we
ask your co-operation, your undi¬
vided aid in this undertaking,
promising you in return therefor
the right kind of a paper. In this
connection allow us to extend
thanks for all favors shown the
former editor and the paper.
O. P. Wright.
EXPLANATORY CARD.
Positively I have not in Bibb
nor any other county ever killed
either a negro or a horse and will
no: unless it is absolutely neces¬
sary for me to do so. Reports
that have been circulated on me
to that effect are conceived m
malice and born in envy. My
record shows for itself on its
face.
W. J. Brown.
warrior news.
Mr. C. Ellis’ baby was buried
at Bethel church yesterday, Aug.
30th. Age 6 months.
James Bryant’s baby is getting
well. . .
Henry Raley, who was so bad¬
ly cut by Ed Smith, is rapidly
recovering.
The storm passed through the
Wamor Sunday night and blew
down corn, cotton and fences
generally.
Miss Alice Newberry, daughter
of Wiley Newberry, is lying at
the point of death. She is a vic¬
tim of the dread disease, con¬
sumption.
Sore eyes are prevalent in the
W arrior.
J. A. Eubanks went to Knox¬
ville on business this week.
Ira.
We uiv prepared to loans on
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WASHINGTON LETTER,
(From Our Rogular Corresponds.)
Wasnington, D. C. Sept. 1, ’93.
President Cleveland, , , in . accor
’
dance , withe the ,, announcement ,
made when he left Washington,
just after the extra session met,
is back at his desk in the White
House, and his appearance is the
best refutation of the many silly
sensational stories that have been
published within the last week
about the dangerous condition he
was in. He probably never
dreamed, when he was having
those two troublesome teeth ex¬
tracted and their ulcerated roots
cut out, two months aso, that Jt . it
would by and by grow into an
operation m which the greater
portion of his jawbone would, in
the mind of the sensational
writer have te be cut away in
order to remove the terrible can
cerous growth. In short, it was
but another version of tne famil¬
iar old story of the man who
vomited three black crows.
President Cleveland is not sick,
and has not been sick since he
left Washington. In fact, there
were few days while he was away
that he did not perform some of
his public duties, as the records
in the office of his private secre¬
tary will show.
The passage of the bill for the
unconditional repeal of the pur¬
chasing clause of the Sherman
silver law by the House has fo¬
cussed public attention upon the
Senate, where financial speeches
are now the order of the day.
How long the Senate will talk
before voting is a question that
will be answered differently by
nine out of every ten men in
Washington. Two weeks is the
shortest time given by any one,
and the longest goes away up in
the months. An agreement of
some sort will have to be reach¬
ed before a vote cat! be taken,
and the silver Senators declare
they will make no agreement,
unless the Yorhees bill, which
has been reported as a substitute
tor the Wilson bill that was
passed by the House, is amended
in a manner satisfactory to them.
The democratic leaders, however,
are confident that an agreement
will shortly be reached.
Procrastination may be the
thief of time, as the old school
adage says, but it isn’t getting a
chance to steal much o om
the House Ways and Means com¬
mittee, which has buckled right
down to the tariff question with
the determination to report a
reform tariff bill at the extra
session, or very early in the reg¬
ular session. While the com¬
mittee is not dispesed to encour
oge long drawn out hearings of
every Tom, Dick and Harry who
may think themselves tariff ex¬
perts, it will grant proper hear¬
ings to all parties who by reason
of their prominence in lines of
business that may be affected by
a change in the tariff have a rea¬
sonable right to be heard. The
hearings will begin Monday and
end September 20th.
Speaker Crisp did a very un¬
usual although not unprecedent¬
ed thing when he called Repre¬
sentative Richardson, of Tenne
see, to the speaker’s chair and
descended to the floor of the
House to reply to the unjust and
uncalled-for attack which ex
Speaker Reed made upon the
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NO. 58.
the Speaker got through disgust¬
ed to find himself justly held up
„ fte , corn of &e Honse and tha
country for having falsely claim
ed that the new rules were in the
,___ '
line of r the __. notorious _ rules , with ...
which he gagged the House of
the Fifty-first Congress. It isjnot
the first time that Mr. Crisp has
proved himself more than a match
for the Maine blusterer, and it
will not be the last. The differ¬
ence between the new rules of the
House and the notorious Heed
rules is precisely that between
the Government of the United
States and the Government of
Russia—the new rules put the
authority for shutting off debate
mthe handsof the majorit of
the , IouEe where it alone belong,
and the Reed rules put it into the
handsof Reed, making him more
„ f an aatocrat than w , nld betole .
tated in any i egi3latiTO body of
wor j^
It is queer how some things
work. It is now said that Col.
Charles P. Lincoln, who was Dep¬
uty Pension Commissinner under
Kaum, and who has lately gained
some notoriety by publicly an¬
nouncing his intention to test in
the courts the right of the Com¬
missioner of Pensions to suspend
pensioners, except in cases where
fraud is proyen to have been used
in securing the pension, got the
scheme up for no other purpose
than to boom his candidacy for
Commander-in-Chief of the G. A.
H. at the coming encampment of
that organization at lndianapo
lis.
It is regarded as significant
that Speaker Crisp should have
attached “It I am in Washington
on that date” to his acceptance
of an invitation to deliver a short
address at ihe centennial celebra¬
tion of the laying of the corner¬
stone of the Capitol, to be held on
the 18, of September. It is taken
to mean that the Speaker thinks
the extra session may adjourn be¬
fore that date, and consequently
that the Senate will be prompt in
acting on the Yorhees bill.
GREATEST ON EARTH.
James M. Brooks, Washington
Ave , St. Louis Mo., Makes affidavit
that he suffered from Rheumatism
for years, until persuaded to try
Drnirnnond’s Lightning Remedy,
and that by its use he has been fully
restored. He says the remedy is the
greatest ou earth. This is high
praise, bnt fully warranted by other
miraculous cures. If yonr druggist
has not got Drummond’s Lightning
rnona Remedy, Medioine write direct Co., to 48-50 the Maiden Drura
large Lane, New York. Price #5 for two
bottles.
Narrowmindedness is a bad
thing. People with liberal views
are the only kind worth a shoe
peg to a community.
BeathM* Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they can
uot reach the diseased portion of the
ear. There is only one way to euro
Deafness, and that is by constitu¬
tional remedies. Deafness is caused
by au inflamed condition of the naus¬
eous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets inflamed you
have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it is entirely clos¬
Deafness is the result, and unless
the inflammation can be taken out
this tube restored to its normal
hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing
an inflamed condition of the
muscous surface.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir¬
culars, fre?.
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