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rannouncements. I | y or County Surveyor. I k ruby announce off ß " 1 ,,’ cantua I purveyor, of s p aHli ng couny, l W lhe £ B &ELL f par County CanmlMionw’. I F^XK°fo“r < ciMty I **»*? to the action of the I OrSJSc primary, and will be glad to ■ oi all the voters. | bsved» 08Opp j. A . j. TIDWELL. the solicitation of many voters I A* announce myself a candidate for | hereby ““ missioner, subject to the dem | (W" Hmary. If elected, I pledge my | honest, business-likeadmfnistra- | tv affairs tn the direction of I*° ®S“s RF * STRICKLAND. I ° , k-flbv announce myself a candidate I Commissioner, subject to the I to be held June 23, I ejected, * Pledge myself to eco- BrSLwnd business methods in conduct- I t sarebv announce myself a candidate 1 firmntv Commissioner of Spalding I** subject to the Democrat ic primary | ’“jane 23d. W. W. CHAMPION. >I to the Voters of Spalding County: I K, Lkv announce myself a candidate for t “tartion to the office of CountyCommis- Scalding county, subject to the BSSicprimary to be held on June 23, I St My record in the past is my pledge I D. L. PATRICK. '-, For Represantatiye- Tn the Voters oi Bpaiding County: I m i candidate for Representative to the l-lr4*Srt> subject to the primary of the ; gU pany, fniTOR Call: Please announce my s candidate for Representative hSsoalding county, subject to tne action ,7 t he democratic party. I shall be pleased to receive the support of all the voters,and ff dected will endeavor to represent the interests of the whole cou n ty. J. B. Bell. " | For Tax Collsctor. I Hspectfully announce to the citizens rfgsalding county that I am a candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Collec tor of thia county, subject to the choice of Ss democratic primary, and shall be grateful for all votes given™.. For Oounty Treasurer. - To the Voters o£_ Bpaiding County: I announce myself a candidate for re-elec tion for the office of. County Treasurer, subject to democratic primary, and if elect ed promise to be as faithful in the per formance of my duties in the future as I have been in the past. J. C. BROOKS. For Tax Beoelver. Editor Call :. Please announce to the voters of Spalding county that I am a can. didata for the office of Tax Receiver, sub ject to the Democratic primary of June 23rd, and respectfully ask the support of < voters of this county. Respectfully, | R. H. YARBROUGH. I respectfully announce myself as a can didate for re-election to the office of Tax Receiver of Spalding county .subject to the action of primary, if one is held. 8. M. M’COWELL. For Sheriff. I respectfully inform my friends—the people of Spalding county—that I am a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the verdict of a primary, if one is held Tour support will be thankfully received and duly appreciated. M J. PATRICK. I am a candidate for the democratic semination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask the support of all my friends and the pub lic. If nominated and elected, it shall be S endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of as faithfully as in the past. t ' M. F. MORRIS. ' 11 i O «• "o> Ming remedies “that tired feeling,” spring fever and lassitude* that comes with WM m days, when the system hasn’t been cleansed from the impurities that winter ••s harvested in the blood, you will find la our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters. For purifying the blood and giving tone to the body they are unexcelled I N. B. DREWRY « SON, 28 Hill Street Elates to Bilttaore, Ml.. M»y 4 28’ of the quadrennial general con- E. church, south, Baltimore, «ayl-28, the Southern Railway will sell May 2,8,4, with final limit May 8 , at half rates—one fare round trip, 0,, “° f route8 > vla Washington, all rail, *Ji»Norfolk and steamer. . r ° r frill particulars address, Randall Clifton, ~ _ T. P. A.. Macon. C - 8. Whits, T. A., Griffim ■ - - -• CURIOUS TEMPERANCE LAW. The One Enforced In Pomona, c*!-, Mid; 1 to Be Unique. The growth of temperance sentiment in southern California in the past few years ' is marvelous, and today, outaido of Los . Angeles, all local elections have prohibi- i tion and high license as their sole issues. There are no party lines between Repub- i Loans, Democrats and Populists, and voters i who have been arrayed against one anoth er in the fall or general elections join hands and array themselves against former allies on the questton of issuing saloon li- 1 censes for a large sum or of having total I prohibition of the local liquor business. Some of the local campaigns are Very heat- : ed and warm the communities much more than general political ones. At the last 1 local election in Pomona the high license ’ party won after a lively campaign of four weeks. The city had been a strict prohibi- ' tion town for two years. < The law now in force is probably the i most curious in the world. Matthew Dunk- ' ley, president of the great temperance i league of Great Britain, says it is a re- ' markable law and worthy of stuffy. It is known on the Pacific coast as the Pdmona saloon law. In its preparation the ideas of dozens of eminent leaders in temperance 1 work were considered. The purpose was to provide s drinking place, pure and sim ple, for men who must drink, to put those places under the most, strict surveillance and at the same time to keep women’s and children’s livelihoods from going over- < a bar. The Pomona saloon law provides that * there may be but two drinking places there—a community of over 6,000 popula tion. , The saloon or barroom must be on a principal thoroughfare of the city. It must be on the first or ground floor, and its front must be one-half of plain glass 1 and flush with the sidewalk. No frosted, , painted or stained glass may be used in Iho windows or doors, and there must be no screens whatever. The view from the street to the bar must always be free and unobstructed, so that a person on the street may at any time see who are within the saloon. ~ Then, also, there can be .no rear or side doors to the saloon, no cellar or basement, no adjunct, wing, side room or alpqve. The saloon or barroom must be a single rectangular or square apartment. There must be no allurements there other than drink itself. To that end there may be but one seat, bench or chair in the saloon. That must be behind the bar and for the sole use of the saloon keeper or bartender. Barrels or casks must be separated from the room by a railing so that they may not furnish seats or leaning conveniences for patrons of the saloon. No pictures, ad vertisements or show cards may boon the walls, and nothing to eat may be served, given away or sold there, not even crack ers or pretzels. All games are strictly pro hibited Ju the saloons, and newspapers, periodicals or books are tabooed along with any table or shelf upon which they might be placed. In a word, the Pomona barroom or saloon is simply a drinking place, surrounded by all the publicity pos sible.—Boston Transcript. Mr. Stogglebr’s Alarm Clocks. “I never set my alarm clock nowadays,” said Mr. Stoggleby, "without thinking of one I used to get up by once and never had to set at all. I was working in a river town, where I had to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning. There was a steamboat running on the river that used to pass our place every morning at 4 o’clock. This steamboat had lost a bucket from one of her wheels, and when this wheel was turning the next bucket after the one that was missing used to come down on the water with a slap. It woke me up the first morning I was there. You could hear it a long distance off, the steady churn of the wheels broken at regular intervals by the chug of this bucket. After that first morn ing I never set my alarm clock. The steamboat was running on a schedule, she was always on time, and every morning she’d wake me up as she went past pound ing down the river. "But one morning a man came up from the mill pounding on my door. ‘Stoggy, me boy, ’he says, ‘ wake up I It's 6 o’elbck. ’ And so it was, and I wondered why they had taken off the steamboat. That night I set my alarm clock, and at 4 o’clock next ir.oruing I was up. And at that hour I heard t:.o steamboat go by just the same, only now she churned past as slick and smooth and soothing as you please. They hadn’t taken her off, but they'd put a now bucket in her wheel.” —New York Sun. Romantic Tale of a Georgia Girl. In the Big Hurrl iane railroad wreck of March 17, 1888, near Blackshear, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. George Gould were both slightly injured. They were cared for at the Brown House, a hostelry kept by Dr. and Mrs. Allen Brown. During the stay of the Goulds a little child, Lilly Converse, 6 years of age, accompanied Mrs. Brown on her visits to Mrs. Gould’s Toom. The wav ing, flaxen hair and fair complexion of the child and her pretty manners and lovely disposition were noticed by Mrs. Gould, who professed to have fallen in love with her. The child’s mother had been deserted by her husband and was penniless and help less, and the Goulds made her all sorts of offers for Lilly, but tho mother refused to part with her. After Mrs. Gould left Blackshear she corresponded with Mrs. Converse and made repeated efforts to have Lilly come to her. Finally Mrs. Con verse died in Savannah, and for awhile the child was lost sight of, but it now appears that she is attending a boarding school in •New York, and it is surmised that Mr. and Mrs. Gould are educating her. She is about IS years of age and is said to be a very beautiful girl.—Philadelphia Press. The Dog Voted. The Bev. Dr. J. C. Wingo was recently re-elected pastor of the Baptist church at Carrollton by the most unanimous tote ever cast by its members. It was at the annual church meeting, over which Dr. Fitts was presiding. One of the members has a pet pug dog that has been taught a number of tricks, one being to rise to his hind legs and walk at the command "stand." Dr. Wingo had retired in order that tho church might vote oar the question of his re-election. One brother had moved the re-election of Dr. Wingo. Another had seconded the' motion, and several speeches had been made, while the pug dog, blink ing solemnly, sat in the front part of the church. The question was called for, and Dr. Fitts put it "Allyvbo are in favor of the re-election of Brother Wingo will please rise and stand." Everybody rose, and then the pug dog got up very solemnly on his hind legs and walked around in front of the pulpit. Everybody laughed, and then Dr. Wingo was informed that be had been re-elected by the unanimous vote of the members and the dog.—Atlanta Journal. * ' THE OXFORD DICTIONARY. ,, • Progress Made So Far <m Dr. Mwray* Great Undertaking. Tho year 1807 was a marked year for the great English dictionary of ths Phil ological society. The third veflume was completed, and Queen Victoria was pleased to sanction the dedication to her majesty of the Oxford English Dictionary on the sixtieth anniversary of her aoceesion. The formal adoption of the work by the great English university was further marked by a "dictionary dinner" in the hall of Queen’s college, at which the vice chan cellor of the university entertained Dr. Murray, Mr. Bradley and others concerned in the production of the "New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,” now fairly christened the Oxford English Dic tionary. w This is the fortieth year since the Phil ological society began Its work upon the dictionary. It is the twentieth save one since Dr. Murray took it in band. The dictionary is now printed as far in the alphabet as the great German historical dictionary was printed at the death of the last of the Grimms, and it has treated 100,000 words. A generation of workers prepared materials. The leaders of a sec ond are growing venerable in the middle of their work. When the literary workers are named there are always some Ameri cans mentioned with thanks. In the early period G. P. Marsh and R. Grant White; in the later the Rev. had long since sent In 86,00(Tquotahpns, Professor Phillips of West Chester 10,000, while Fltz edward Hall ranks with Mr. Furnlval in tireless all round help from first to last. The dictionary is pronounced "the greatest effort probably which any uni versity, it may be any printing press, has taken in hand since the invention of print ing, a labor beyond the. scope of private enterprise. It will not He tho least of the glories of the Universityfof Oxford to have completed this gigantic task." Volume 8 consists of words In D and E, 790 pages in D, 488 11 B. The whole number of words in D iq 19,051, against 9,084 in Johnson’s Dictionary, 10,705 in the Century and 11,181 in the Standard. The number of Illustrative quotations is 85,446. More than 2,000,000 slips of them had been prepared when Dr. Murray be gan his work. He announced in volume 1 that in the next three years 1,000,000 more wers furnished. The preface to volume 3 mentions many new names of readers, Al bert Matthews of Boston heading the list with 98,000 quotations, and Halkett Lord of Scotch Plaine, N. J., following after with 4,000. Some of these words In D use up heaps of the quotations. Do, for example, is the most formidable word In the language, as Dr. Murray says. The article upon It rep resents “the distilled essence of 19,000 quo tations.” They are classified and analyzed and finally arranged under 134 subdivi sions of sense, idiom and construction, and fill. 18 columns of the great pages of the dictionary. There is, besides, a full discussion of the original of the verb in the Indo-European parent speech, and a deduction of the forms iM our sister speeches and in the earliest Anglo-Saxon. —lndependent. His Royal Driver. A few days ago, says one of the south German papers, a soldier was returning to the barracks of Ludwigsburg (Wurttem berg) from an excursion to the suburbs. It was near the time for evening drill, and he was in fear of being late. Suddenly a small vehicle, driven by a man in civil ian’s clothes, appeared. "May I not take the vacant seat at your side, sir!” asked the soldier. "I am late for drill. ” "I’ll be glad of your company,” came the reply. ' / The trooper took the seat A few min utes later, looking at his watch, he grew pale. “Pardon me,” be went on, “but might I ask you to drive faster? I have great fear of my captain, who is a strict disci plinarian. If lam a minute late, he will put me in the guardhouse. ” "To what barracks do you belong?” "The K— barracks.” “Very wdl. We shall arrive in time.’L The driver whipped up his team and in a short time drew up before the gate of the barracks. "Thank you, sir,” said the soldier in descending. While the son of Mars was still bowing his acknowledgments the officer on duty at the annory had ordered the guard to present arms. The driver of the vehicle was the king of Wurttemberg. New Title For Reed. It not infrequently happens that mem bers become confused in addressing the presiding officer of the house. In the heat of debate it is sometimes "Mr. Chairman" and sometimes "Mr. Speaker.” The vote to go in the committee of the whole house, the presiding officer of which is chairman, also tends sometimes to confuse those who participate in the proceedings. There was a laugh on General Walker of Virginia for a slip of this kind, although he ad dressed Mr. Reed neither as Mr. Speaker nor as "Mr. Chairman.” The general is a lawyer by profession and has been a prominent figure in the courts of the Old Dominion, so when he and Representative Mien of Indiana were having a heated ar gument concerning their agreement on the time for presenting a minority report on the Thorps-Epes contested election case it can be readily understood why the general happened to break in on the Hoosier with an impassioned wave of his hand toward the speaker, following this with, "If your honor please”— Mr. Reed smiled. The general corrected himself and proceeded with a statement of his side of the case.—Washington Bost Jerusalem’s Water. The scheme to bring pure water into Jerusalem has been abandoned. "As all visitors know, ” says The Jewish Chronicle, "the inhabitants of that city, of every creed and nationality and particularly the poorer residents, suffer untold hardships in consequence of the scarcity of drinking water. At the present time they depend principally upon the supply collected in cisterns from the rains which fall during the rainy season • from December to March. Some of the water flows, Id the first place, through the streets of Jerusa lem, before reaching the tanks, which are above the houses. Thence it trickles down info underground cisterns, where it stag nates and breeds all sorts of insects and impurities. And this is what the major ity of the people have to drink! Even if filtered and toiled, it would scarcely be safe to imbibe such stuff. And by the end of June even this supply is often exhaust ed.” ' An Odd Coincidence. The calendar for the present yerf exact ly reproduces that of 1887. Each year com menced on a Saturday, has a, 98 day Feb ruary and in both years Barter falls on April 10. » „ - ■ 4, -e » ' > NEW YORK’S POSTMASTERS. A* OMco That Been» to Kmnd to Mishar Things nr Long Ufa ar Batik The first postmaster of the city of New York got his commission from Thomas Jefferson. He was Theodorus Bailey, a resident of Poughkeepsie. He waa a Unit ed States senator, having as his colleague De Witt Clinton, but be resigned his place tn the senate to become postmaster of New York, which was then a city of about 75,000, and the postal business of which amount ed to a few hundred letters a day instead of the present volume of business, which yields to the federal government a net profit of $5,000,000 a year. He had pre viously been a member of the legislature, he had enjoyed the distinction which came to senators in the early years of the coun try's life, and beheld the office of postmas ter for 94 years. Andrew Jackson appointed the next postmaster, who continued in office for eight years. His name was Jonathan Ood dington. Nine years before his appoint ment Coddlngten was a member of the legislature, at a time when all the mem ber* were elected on one ticket, and he held the office of postmaster until John Tyler appointed another man in his place. Tyler's propensity for appointing men in other men’s places led to considerable friction in his time, and it led, it la sup posed, to some of the denunciations which were made of Tyler, denunciations emanat ing from those who were displaced. Presi dent Pierce appointed as postmaster of New York Isaac V. Fowler, who was an important personage in the politics of his day. He had as his successor John A. Dlx, I whose commission came from James Buch anan. General Dix—he was pot than a general—was born in 1788, and at the time of his selection as postmaster he was known rather irreverently and certalply Inaccurately as "Old Dix-" He had pre viously been—27 years before— secretary of state at Albany; he had been a legislator and 15 years before had been chosen a United States senator. He was afterward aMjstant secretary of the treasury, and his acceptance of the office of postmaster of New York was thought to round out his career. He was the second United States senator to become postmaster. So far from rounding out bis .career, General Dix’s acceptance of the office of pqetmaster might truthfully be said to have begun it Ifgign. In January, 1861, he was appoint* ed Moretary of the treasury of the united States, later on he became a general ip the Upiqn army, still later 4towican min ister to Frahoe, and finally, on Jan. 1, 187$, governor of the state of New York. Geheral Dix died in April, 1879, at the age (Si 81 years. He was 03'when appointed postmaster. Two postmasters of New York were ap pointed during- President Lincoln’s term —Abram Wakeman and James Kelly—and two during Grant’s term—Mr. Jones and Mr. James, both still active. President Harrison appointed Cornelius Van Cott 1 nine years ago, and President McKinley reappointed him after the expiration of the font years’ tenure of Charles W. Dayton, appointed by President Cleveland. Tho office of postmaster of New York leads usually to higher things for those who leave it and to long life to those who don’t, i —New York Sun. A Diamond. Tooth Joke. I Here is an anecdote about Brooklyn ‘ dentist that has recently caused a smile or two in drawing room and club circles not far from the heights. A wealthy man r upon whom nature has bestowed a rugged * and serious countenance to mask a joking disposition called at the office of- the den* ’ tist aforesaid in actual distress over a bro ken front tooth. "Can anything be dons to remedy this defect?" he asked eagerly. ’ Upon examination the dental artist found that one of two very large and prom inent upper teeth had been damaged be b yond repair. "It must oome out," he said ' curtly. 1 "No, no, you must build it up,” ex claimed the visitor. “I can’t spare that tooth. Its removal would make my mouth look like an open porthole.” "Oh, well, I can replace it,” complaoent -1 ly answered the dentist. “The old one 3 must certainly come out, but I will put in a new one that will make you look better 1 than ever before. It will be firm and reg ular and much handsomer than the old f one.” r "Ah!” muttered the wealthy man. 3 "That’s what I want. Make it as at -3 tractive as possible. ’ ’ "Yes, indeed, I will," said the dentist enthusiastically. "You shall have a tooth that will be perfect in form, white, pearly * and glistening"— » "Say, doctor,” Interrupted the visitor l> with mock gravity, "couldn’t you set a ’ large diamond in the middle of it?" ) "Ob, no, I wouldn’t do that," replied , the dentist hastily, but in sober earnest. > "Os courea I know that you can well as- > ford it, but it would look—well, just a a trifle too odnspicuous, don’t you know.”— i New York Times. r He Could Vary the Monotony. 3 There is no man in public life who en- * joys a story more than Samuel Hamilton, I oounty superintendent of public schools. 9 Mr. Hamilton tells one on himself which * came about when be was a country school -9 teacher. 1 "I had a big class and was just a little 6 nervous on my first break into life as a 1 teacher," said the big fellow. "I had a 1 class up, and a little fellow who sat up in 1 the comer began twirling his thumbs like r wildfire. He seemed to be trying to break his own record at thumb twirling, and be 1 was doing well when I landed down at hie 6 end of the earth with a question. He * didn’t bear me at all. I might as well have been in the Klondike for all be cared. He was twirling so that his little thumbs 9 looked like a pinwheel, w 1 9 ‘ William, ’ I shouted, with a voice that , jarred the stove door open and broke a ' small boy’s slate across the room. William 9 woke up and looked at me in a dazed sash -3 ion. i “ ‘ls that all you can do in class?’ I I thundered. > "Quick as a flash came the reply: ‘No, ! sir; I can do it backward just as fast.’ 9 And to make his words good he began to 9 twirl those thumbs backward at lightning - speed."—Pittsburg Dispatch. , I An Intricate Question. ’ Officialdom in Germany has been com -3 pelted by a bicyclist to give deep thought ‘ to the question “When two streets inter ( sect, in which street is the point of inter -3 section?" At Breslau bicycles are forbid* 1 den on certain streets. A rider going along a street where they are allowed followed it across a prohibited street and was arrested in the middle of the road. He asserted that he was <n one street, the policeman that he was ia the other, the lower court that he was in neither and should not be fined, and the upper court that be was in both, therefore on the forbidden street and mart pay 95 cents. ‘ ■" ' ! .'Z-' , " . ■ |\l I JsM I I Kmii Imf Ain vren L.c i i To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD " C ASTORIA,” AND “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. • Z DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Byannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of •■PITCHER’S CASTORIA.” the saw that has borne and does now e ° ery bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. 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