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The Advocate-Democrat. SIOO Por Year. VOL, XXII. The Alliance Store & :c. will save you * M*()*N*E*Y #• oil $• & Clothing Hats. 4' Special Prices on Alapacca Coats And Extra Pants. SIDE-WALK MOTES. Pure Romo Matters Picked Up by Our Local Reporters. Wliat Our People Are Doing: anti Saying# Things Our Friends Tell Us. Sewing needles at C. strom s. —Jtfr. E. I. Anderson and son, Tuesday. Bob went down to Augusta * —Mr. W. T W. ,_ r Bird .. s friends , . .. wl °Z Viirn m mViLvrr S mP J Sowing ? machine ° belts and . oils at C. Bergstrom s. ■s-Mrs. E. R. Beazley and son. Alex went up to Greene to visit .^veiv.vnetl from, long Wt afo reiaa\es in Hailem. Big lot of good snuff cheap at C. Bergstrom s. —Mr. F. P. Hall went up to Atlanta this week to have liis eyes treated. —Prof. L. A. McLaughlin ac compained Mr. L. P. Winter to Powelton Saturday last. —The next house in town to receive a coat of paint is the post office corner. It needs it. Call on C. Bergstrom for sewing machine needles of all kinds. _-\j r l p Winter j s off to Norwood and Harlem this week on a lecturing tour. It want a straw , hat go to you the Alliance Store. —Bob Anderson returned a few days ago from Auburn, Ga., - attending where he has been school. —Mrs. Stovall, of Apalachee, spent a few days this week with Dr. Beazley’s family at this place. New lot of furniture just re¬ ceived at Alliance Store. —The members of the Metho¬ dist church will have an icecream festival at the court house Fri¬ day night. • —Mr. C. L. Bagby, who is do¬ ing considerable tin work here was crippled up Tuesday with his old wound. Fruit jars at Alliance Store cheap. —Mrs. Eliza Reid and daugh¬ ters, Misses Minnie and Leila, spent Sunday last with Mrs, L. L. Oslin at Barnett. 1 q ii- v. . p . r .f a,. fmstn vo turned home Month v after spending several days with relatives and friends hof h. —The Ions# distance telephone poles and wires close to fbyvn this week. We can soon say -Hello, Atlanta" For broken of wotnout parts of sewins machines en*H‘ on G. Bergstrom. “IN THE INTEREST OF ALL THE PEOPLE.* CRAWFORD VILLE, GA., FRIDAY| M AY 14,1897- —The town council has abol¬ ished the night-watchman’s office at this place. —Everybody come out to the ice cream festival Friday night; bring your sweethearts, wives and children and have a good time. —Mr, M. C. Jones, of Augusta, sent up hei'e this week for $1.50 worth of earth worms for fish “d Mr. W. O. Holden sent llim f out a - allon ’ Alapacca coats at Alliance Store for 90c. —Misses Susan Q n Gunn and 1 Ada . , Akins, and Mrs. L. P. Stephens, Mrs. John H. Stephens and Mrs. w j Norton went down to Au . gusta Monday morning. Peaches in glass jars at 0. Bergstrom's. I here rfl be another picnic at the Mill on first Satui'day in June. Every body invited. 65c buys a good pair mole skin pants at Alliance Store, —Good many people went clown to the Georgia Railroad convention in Augusta this week. May conventions are not what they used to be to the people along the Georgia Railroad, Fine and common suspenders a t C- Bergstrom s. —Mr. Bob Hill of Hancock county was here a few days ago looking for some horses that had been spirited away from his section. He found one he sup posed to be one of the missing fi orses , Brass lock with two keys at Alliance Store for 10c. —It is rather, late to mention ^ ^ut Mr. O. M. Snggus’ many friends have been congratulating him for the past two weeks or more an the arriual of twins at his house. They are fine ones w T e are told. FOR A GOOD SCHOOL. Our city fathers have appro¬ priated $300.00 to the Stephens High School. Liberty Hall will be repaired and the remainder of the money will go towards helping pay the teacher’s salary. With the public fund added, tui¬ tion in the school trill be light on the patrons. An effort will be made to have the best school here we ever had. Let the good work go oil. YE of.DE TIME PARTY The “Poverty Party at Mrs. J. D. Hammocks last ^h'e Friday night was a success, i young ^ pl J „ n L 1h« •.ml custom is at such parties, wearing doChing and ornaments violatin'^ some of the rules The funds wer^ for the benefit of the Presbyterian irits chufch. and « nice little sum raised ft u k yj' M -t* -D After • 0 0 • Taking i a course of Ayer’s Pills the system is set in good working | order and a man begins to feel j_ that life is worth living. He' who has ' become the gradual prey of constipation, does no# realize the friction under which he labors, until the burden is lifted from him. Then hit. mountains sink into molt' hills, his moroseness giv ; J place to jollity, lie is a hap- y man again. If life does i it seem worth living to you, ; au may take a very different vi’ w of it after taking Apr's Cathartic Fills, HIAVYASSEEEXEffjftsEAt Commencements exereis* s of the Hiawassee, Ga, , High S fhool will take place May 22-d4c ; 'Rev. H. R. Bernard, of Athens , will preach the commencement!' ser mon on the 23, and Rev. I i » Missionary sermon on he 'IF ! ‘ afternoon. _ WIIO RAISES THEM. Ed. Advo- Democrat-A; ; Edi tor of the Agricultural T> part ment of the Augusta Chronicle, I am collecting some facts about the amount and kinds of seeds grown in Georgia for the seed men of the United States—both field and garden seeds. II thei’e are any growers in your o aunty, will they please send mt t heir names, kinds and amounts of seeds they grow ? N. L. Win LET. Augvsta, Ga., May 14th , 1897. NINE CONVICTS ESCAPE. While a good many of the em ployers of the Griffin convict camp were at Washington for the purpose of attending the trial of Robert Cannon, nine of the convicts at the camp escaped, leaving only one, who was sick. This sick man made such a noise that the escape was discovered, and they were pursued, but to no purpose, Dogs wore procured, but the so-called blood hounds, instead of following the trail, turned into hunting rabbits. —There is some kicking being done about the placing of the telephone poles in town. They interfere with sdihe of the shade trees and Other property along its ine. A Life Saved. Marvelous cures of throat and luilg affections are made daily by Dr; Bull’s Cough Syrup. Miss Annifc SWan, l’etersburg, Va., writes: “My brotl.er was attacked by a had bough and cold, and it was thought he hadconsun.pt tl0h - Dr - hull s Lough Syrnp was used; and to our great surprise it made l»im Well and heafty. There is no Fetter cure in the world than this Syrup.” Dr. Bull ? Cough Syrup i* sold everywhere for 25 cents I BOB CANNON CASE. Tried in V.ilkcs Court Lust Wetk. * / Fount «• Guilty of Involuntary Man¬ 1 slaughter. j The case against Bob Cannon "as tried jn Wilkes Superior court last week and the ease ‘•.vent to the jury late Friday night.' The following report of ■the case is fron; the Augusta Chronicle: The jury brought in a verdict of involuntary manslaughter, which was a great surprise to everyone, but nevertheless meet¬ ing with general approval. » Judge Reese sentenced Can¬ non to one year at hard labor on the chain gang, or pay a fine : gf $500 and costs. A motion was jjgade before Judge 'Reese for a new trial. The consensus of opinion is that Cannon got off very light and had best leave well enough alone. Hon. Tims. E. Watson \s speech was a masterpiece of logic and reasoning, teeming with elo quence and appealing to the sen iirnent of the jury. He made a powerful effort in behalf of his Solicitor General Lewis’ speech was none the less elo¬ quent and sustained ins reputa¬ tion which is an enviable one. It is an open secret that the grand jury have indicted Griffin Bros., owners of the • camp at which Cannon whipped the ne¬ gro, Frank McRae, to death, for having a negro woman whipped while Kick until she was bloody as a butchered bee!;'* 1 This case will be pushed to the fullest extent. The grand jury and the people of this county are much stirred up over the mis treatment of convicts at tin > camp above ’mentioned. Evoryboiiy Says 8o. Casearcts Candy Cathartic, the most won¬ derful medical discovery of the age, pleas¬ ant and positively refreshing to the taste, aci, gently and on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing headache, the entire fever, system, habitual dispel eonstipfttion colds, cure and biliousness. Flense buy and try ' it box of < J. C. C. to-day 510, S5fi f f >0 cents. Hi old and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. A RARE INVENTION. Dr. B. F. Riley is just back from Greene and . while , county, there he ran across a rare device in the hands of a citizen of that coun y. It 1S an attachment to an alarm clock, and is so arranged that as soon as the alarm begins to rings a little hammer decends upon a small anvil, strikes a match and swings it .. into . . position ... to . „ light , , a lamp that also accompanies the clock. _ _ Such an invention was patent ed by a man in Arkansas a few months since; although in all probability the Greene county citizen’s invention antedated that of the Arkansas man. This device is a rarely inter¬ esting piece of mechanism.-— Athens Banner They employ brass hands at funerals in Grcccv. A Timely Friend. With perfect propriety may wo call that excellent remedy; Salvation Oil, a timely friend, This linimfent rapidly cures rheumatism, hhuralgist and pains, when other remedies fail. Mr. Jno, M. Hall, Ashland, Va., writes: “I suffered w.tli rheumatism mine anxie and the muscles connected therewith. Salvation Oil at once relieved the sore ness, reduced the sweffing and cured the pain. No other lmiinent that I ever used did me so much good.” In Ad.van.co- NO- 12. Badass |C® @ m POWPER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for ilsgivat lea veiling sfrcnirlh and healthfullness, A: -Hire the food against alum and all forms of adultera¬ tion common to the cheap lininds. R()\ Ab BA KING POWDER CO., New York. DIED AT SHARON. Freeman Iverson, the 12-year old son of Mrs. Fannie Iverson, of Atlanta, died at Sharon Sat¬ urday morning from heart trou¬ ble, of which the lad had com¬ plained for a long lime. The little boy, it seems, was at play on Saturday at Sharon, where ho was visiting. His death oooured a few moments af¬ ter the attack came. ft was re¬ ported that an autopsy had been held with a view of ascertaining the exact nat ure of the malady. This is denied by the dead lad's relatives.—Atlanta Journal, Keep gray hairs from forming by using Hall's .Vegetable Sicil¬ ian Hair Renevver. FINNEY TALKS. Linton Finney, the negro mi¬ der sentence to hang at Lexing¬ ton next Friday told the tale of the killing last week. He says that a negro by the name of John Pascal first conceived the idea-of murdering Mr, Hunly and Btoanal and Taylor Finney (|jd thl , U g." Said rrc> P Ao’G. told John Pascal that Tayl or would go with him to k ill Hard y. and that he knew '.V, ther about it until alter the kill ing and that John and Taylor gave him ten dollars of the mon¬ ey to say nothing about it. John denies in toto the stale meats of Finney. li<> says he never made any such proposal docs to him and never did nor not now know Taylor Finney. Yet a thorough investigation of the matter will be made. Finney’s execution will bo private nexl Friday at Lexing ton unless something turns up uo tyet known, ROW’S Tills? 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