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VOL. 2.
ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS.
GATHERED for the COR RE
SPONDENT'S 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.
Excursion to Atlanta to-day.
Darkey campmeeting on hand,
Mark Carnes went to Atlanta
Wednesday.
Col. R.D. Smith has been out
on a hunt this week.
At this writing our neighbor
warehouse seems to be on a shut,
Miss Alma Spillers is out on a
visit to# relatives in Knoxville.
M. H. Carnes has built an ad¬
dition to his stove and dining
room.
Sheriff Culverhouse went down
the'R. R. on a business round
this week.
Will Smith has been seining
the river this week. He came out
feet in front.
Crawford will be well repre¬
sented in Boliver Ray’s big cot¬
ton procession.
Hogs are in demand. Cotton
is not so much needed as some¬
thing to eat.
Legal blanks will be printed
at this office and furnished at low
prices. Give us a trial.
Business at one warehouse has
been suspended and now the cot¬
ton goes to the iron house.
Joel N. Mathews, our esteemed
and efficient Ordinary, went over
to Milledgeville this week.
Dick Lockhart does not fancy
a loaded cigar. Boliver Ray en
•
joys seeing him smoke one.
Judge A. F. Williams went to
Greene county this week. Mrs '
Williams went some days ago.
Mrs. O. P. Wright was in At
lanta Monday and Tuesday. She
goes ahead of the excursion.
Our trade issue is on a boom,
Come in and give your aid.
Don’t wait for the paper to do
all.
In many places most of the cot¬
ton is now open and this picking
will leave but little of it in the
fields.
Will Wilson is a hustler in the
lumber business. He has made
a drive on some big trades this
week.
Some one said cotton brought
eight cents per pound here this
week. This beats our best state
markets.
Mr. W. E. Hicks, a prominent
salesman at W. I. Powell’s says
that the home girls are the best
of all.
Mrs. B. H. Ray, Miss Bessie
Smith and Add Harris spent
last Thursday down at the tur¬
pentine still.
Atlanta pulls back but Roberta
in the State of Crawford is going
right along with a full grown
smile as a headlight.
Work for the town and do some
of it every day. Ours is a fine
county and this town ought to do
four times as much business as it
now does.
Crawford would be certain to
have a county fair this fall if
every dollar at her command
were not needed in a different
direction ,
THE CORRESPONDENT
ROBERTA, G A., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 29, 1893.
EIGHTEEN LEW CASES.
YELLOW FEVER STILL "
_
Kagin g in Brunswick. Ne
gro Policemen.
Brunswick. Ga., Sept. 2. —From
ind, cations at the noon moetin K yel
^nJ ££
maining in the city. Eighteen cases
are reported, and it is thought that
“iFkvorabta
tor the spread of the disease.
Twenty-five negroes were sworn m
by the pouee department, and last
n.ght were patrolling the city armed
with Winchester rifles. This was
d « ne to cl,eck ai W Rising of ne
&loea ‘
~
Advertise your business and be
in ifou the forefront of the straggler! contest
can t afford to be a
This paper is with youwhenyon
in any wise deserve it.
Every day brings us in new
advertisements, subscribers by
the score and orders for job
work more than we can fill.
Don’t get on the track.
Justice Long exercises his own
discretion when it comes to af¬
fairs in his court, It is laudable
in a man to have a mind and will
of his own in all things.
When you are in town call at
this office tell us the news and be
certain to subscribe for the paper
if you have not already given in
your name.
It is not right to trouble your
neighbor about borrowing his pa¬
per to read. It costs but a pit¬
tance and you can subscribe and
pay for it and have one of your
own in your own home.
The people of our good town
ought to open their eyes wider
on the line of the right kind of
advertising. The town would be
helped ten fold more than you
pay us for it.
Will Smith is now on the oflice
force. If the business of the pa
per continues to increase for the
next three weeks as it has during
the three just passed, our readers
will have a paper more than once
a week.
B. II. Ray now says in addition
to what has already gone out to
the public about his Gigantic and
Elephantic cotton procession that
he wjll be at every crook and
turn in it.
Hon John T. Boifeullet will be
on hand and deliver the welcome
address. Its success is assured
and doubly because every feature
in it comes up to modern strides
in progress.
Bart Dawson complains to the
Mayor that he is molested in
many ways. The Mayor cant give
relief without there were before
him a case in some shape. Bart
is possibly out of shape.
Don’t forget this: Crawford
can and will be away ahead, if
every one puts in his part of the
work. Now is the time to make
the stroke. We are pretty well
up now but lets go to the top.
Bond and Blasingame's gin¬
nery is the biggest thing that
turns wheels in this section.
They gin cotton cheap as anybody
can—have all modern appliances
and fixtures. They will give you
more for Cotton Seed than any
buyer, no matter what his offer
is. Try them.
Bond <fc Blaaingame.
SHOT HIS YOUNG WIFE.
A TRAGIC W OF A FAMILY ROW
___ a _
Charles Herring Makes a
Desperate Effort at
Murder and Suicide.
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Atlaata Ga sept. 35 th.—Charles
Setrln d 19 wenM0 his heme
threatened to leave him.
Fiudinj? her sitting on the
veranda in company with Mrs. Wm.
made apnirderous /s assault upon hi®
n = first shot did not kill,
jn reosed Ms (urJ . Seizing his
by , he „ ail . he . to gged hor
through the hallway o*f the house to
a rear room where he#hot a second
bullet into her. Then throwing the
apparently lifeless body upon a bed,
he put, a couple of shots into his own
breast and fell on the bed beside his
* Both were aiivewh^ physi
t'onndswere sohJous that llt««
hope of the life of either is enter¬
tained.
It seems that Herring’s wife was
of a somewhat gay and frivolous dis
position before her marriage to Her
ring two years ago.
Married life soon became a bore
and there were frequent quarrels.
This morning Herring put his wife’s
things out in the hallway, she hav
ing declared that she intended leav
ing him. The husband realized the
future life that awaited his young
wife if she left his roof for that of
her sister, and though he put her
things out in the hall during the
quarrel before he left for his day’s
work lie. declared that before ho
would consent to a separation he
would kill his wife ancj- himself also.
Matters did not mend duribg the
day and when he saw his wife sitting
with Mrs. Kelsey, whom he blamed
with the separation that seemed- im
minent betwen them, his rage over
came him and he madly rushed onto
her to carry out his tragic threat of
the morning.
Ill case you desire your com
munications left out of print send
them without giving as your tea!
name. We can’t afford to violate
our rules. Some, it is unknown
whether they meant it or not
come in wrong tins week.
^Some of our subscribers feel
complimented that they have
been asked to take the paper for
the first time since it came into
existence. We hereby say come
one come all and give us join
name.
Agent Rolling 0 worth fell into
a low case of much seriousness
last Sunday. Monday morning
he did not know North from South
and could not tell whether Fort
Valley was North or Atlanta
South from Knoxville.
Wes Dent has made eight him
dred or a thousand bushels
corn on a two-horse farm and
peas to fatten one hundred head
of hogSi co tton, but hog
hominy in abundance. Jack
cock says lie and Dent are on
right line.
^While you are selling your
ton and fixing.up for your
mas nog, don’t forget to call
pay up the little you owe the
per. All these littles
make a sum that would be
i help now and enable us to
you a better paper.
Keep your eye on the
tisem mts that go in this
They mean something.
in them is defunct. Papers
the head run on strictly
principles. Pin your faith to
right kind of coat tail
IS THE SIXTH -AGAIN.
The People, The Crops and
Other Matters of
Interest.
The senior editor of The Cor
respondent has always liked the
Sixth District, and were it possi
, We for it t0 do tatk, eviry
that it grows day'.
The good people down there (all
that we have seen) have sub
scribed for The Corbespoxdext
i^^ J,Le '™ e 0theK - ^ ‘° *° * n<1 d °
Crops are fine in that section.
It really seems that cotton, corn
and peas, cane and potatoes
could be 1JQ better>
. Lonnie Taylor has seventy
acres m cotton and will get oil oi
Ins crop fifty heavy bales. There
are several other crops which
will turn ont folly as well. Feo
pie are not devoting any .time to
grumbling.
Mr. J. H. Joyner stands ahead
of the average man whether he
be a tamer or follows some other
business. He has never paid any
interest and pays the hard cash
for all he buys. Does not bor
^ ^nt independent. . He
1 rj ls has
met with misfortune, but has
overcome it and is now one of
the most substantial men in
Georgia. His-farm is selfsustain
ing and lie has an elegant gener
al store and a ginnery that takes
good care of itself and makes him
some money,
-
Bunt Johnson, as he is famil
iarW known, has charge of the
Taylor ginnery and is making
things hum round about there,
Bunt has a fine crop and is doing
well.
Now if you need any thing to
eat—pork, beef or mutton or any
thing else yon can get re right,a
the feixtli. E. L. Aultman & Co.
ran a good market and can sup.
V* the most "' lth «*•
ables.
Jim Russian and Uncle John
Harper and in fact, every one we
any talk with, are doing the
right way. They make plenty
hnd en j 0 y it.
—
We are now prepared to put
y 0lu . picture in the paper, also a
rilce cut of your store, office or
shop at low prices. If you desire
a good send off in our trade issue
come in and contribute a little
toward it and you will be bene
fifed five times the worth of your
money.
The young ladies and gentle¬
men of Knoxville spent a pleas
ant hour one night last week at
the Harris House. Among them
were Miss Bessie Smith, Misses
Scrap and Beulah Wright, Frof.
J. D. Smith. E. B. Trammell and
Judd Williams and wife. Next
time invite the society editor of
.Tee Correspondent and let him
write up your entertainment.
“A word to the wise is sufficient.’
Mr. B. Chapman, proprietor of
the New York Bargain House, is
in Roberta next dom to this
office. He will open up immedi¬
ately. Goods here. Look out
for his big advertisement in this
paper next week. He knows ex¬
actly what he is doing else lie
would not be with this paper in
his first venture in this locality.
For Sale.—A line milch-cow
with young calf. Apply to J. E.
Wright, Roberta, Ga,
NO. 61.
BOLIVER H. RAYS
BIG 0OTTOI2 PROFESSION
Farmers From Crawford
Houston, Monroe, Bibb
and Upson are invited
to participate in it.
Fine Barbecue—Nothing will be
lacking—W. A. Davis & Co.,
Warehousemen Figure in it.
Boliver Ray in his accustomed and
wide awake way hits made every
necessary arrangement for the big¬
gest cotron procession of years. •
The farmers of Bibb, Crawford,
Taylor, Monroe, Macon, Upson,
Houston and other counties will be
on hand with their cotton and join
in the procession.
It will be on Tuesday the 3rd day
of October 1893. Be at Jim Hicks’
wagon yard with your cotton at 7
o'clock a. ra on that day to join the
throng.
Procession will be from that place
to W. A. Davis & Co’s warehouse
where the cotton will be weighed and
sold or stored.
It will be a profitable aud pleasant
oecasiou.
FREE BARBECUE.
Barbecue in unparalleled profu¬
sion and abundance will be given
free at 6 o’clock P. M. on that cay.
Teams cared for at the same rate.
Don’t forget the day—Oct. 3d.
Come, bring your cotton and join in
the procession.. You will never re
gret it, The success that will eome
of this undertaking is already assur¬
ed.
Y ours with thanks for past patron¬
age.
B. H. RAY.
Potatoes are so plentiful here¬
abouts that the hogs are given
full possession of the patches.
Farmers are not selling all of
their cotton seed by a long jump.
This is noted with g-ieat pleasure.
Some people contend that li¬
quor ruins a town when sold in it.
These objectors ought to take
notice of the extreme loneliness
of Roberta’s calaboose and the
little work done by her officials.
If yon want your business writ¬
ten up and the town advertised
and the whole county along with
it-, pay us a little extra for our
trade issue. Arrangements are
being made for one which will be
shaped up in the very best* style
and two thousand copies will go
out from this office to all parts of
country. Just a little money ex¬
pended in this direction will be
worth a great deal to you.
On last Sunday night, between
Miisella and Oulloden, some
fiend thiew a rock or something
of the kind into the first-class
passenger coach on the A. & F.
Railway. An entire window was
broken out. On Tuesday night
following at the same point on
the road the train was rocked
again. Such conduct results in
damage to property and endan¬
gers life. Conductor Woodall
saw the sable gentleman on
Tuesday night when he threw;
and, had the train not been run¬
ning at full speed the scoundrel
would to-day, probably, be in a
warmer country reaping his
recompense of reward.
This office has been crowded so
much this week with job work
that our patrons may be disposed
to be n little petulant, but peo¬
ple seldom stop to notice a thing
when there is nothing in it.
That is consolation to us.