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done and the voters of the county
sustained the prohibition move by
600 majority. Our citizens as a rule
are sober, quiet, industrious and
hard working, having for them¬
selves comfortable homes and
farms from which they realize
bounties suHleient to meet all their
home wants and are saving some
money Any information possible
will gladly be given to parties ad-
dressing this paper with stamp en¬
closed to pay postage on return
letter.
FUN IN AVAR-TIME.
At about the closes of the war Mr.
W. It. McCorkle came home on pa¬
role; finding the neighbors gone he
started out to find them. He sus-
picioned where they were, and di¬
recting his steps to Buzzard Hill on
Buck creek he found large crowds
of people there with mules, horses,
cows, hogs, meat, corn, etc. They
were expecting Sherman to pass
througli their section of country on
his way to Columbus, but his forces
had really passed in another direc¬
tion. Mr. McCorkle took in the
situation at once and began whoop¬
ing and laughing as loud as he
could. Some of the alarmed men
were ready to slide off into the
swamp, while others rushed toward
McCorkle waiving him down with
their hands, and saying in a sup¬
pressed tone of voice: “Hush, Bill,
for gracious sake hush! We are
expecting the Yankees evey mo¬
ment, and if they hear us they will
l»e a tearing up this hill in two min¬
utes with their cannon balls.”
About the same time Mr. A—
had a fine lot of meat he wanted to
save, so he carried it to the swamp.
A few days afterwards a friend was
passing through the swamp when
suddenly he came upon Mr. A—ly¬
ing at the trunk of a large tree
asleep. He awoke much excited at
first, and when asked what in the
world he was doing out there, he
said: “Hush, don’t talk so loud! I
am guarding my meat,” pointing
up as he spoke. And, sure enough,
he had climbed a very large tree by
some means, and succeeded in hang¬
ing his meat up in the top of the
tree, while he spent his time in
guarding it, notwithstanding there
was not a Yankee in thirty miles.
THE ENTERPRISE.
Chun. I>. .4 <ln ms, Ktlilor.
ELLAVILLE, OA.. JUNE 30, 1887.
Next Monday is the Glorious
Fourth.
The Peabody Institute convenes
in Atlanta July 18.
The fact that tho farmers are not
grumbling is evidence that mother
earth is doing her duty.
Education begins the gentleman,
but reading, good company, and re¬
flection must finish him.
The sayings of many great men
would fill volumes. Their doings
could be written on a postal card.
Legal advertisements must he
paid for in advance. We positively
will not make any exceptions to
this rule.
Although old and feeble, lion.
Jefferson Davis is one of the few
men whose utterances always com¬
mand attention.
President Cleveland’s nurse is
dead. George AVashington’s con¬
tinues to die at irregular intervals.
It is evidently an unhealthy busi¬
ness, nursing presidents.
A gentlemen of Richmond, Va„
lias offered a prize of $25 for the
best essay on tho subject of “Self-
supporting Employment for Ladies
in the Southern States.” AVe sug¬
gest that the girls try croquet. Many
ot our leading citizens flourish and
fatten on it.
The Enterprise is rapidly gain¬
ing favor among the peoplo. The
day is not far distant when a copy
can be found in every household in
the county. Let the work of a home
‘Enterprise’ be sustained by home
people and the people abroad will
become interested and gladly share
your pride.
Envy burns in fires of its own
kindling; writhes under Its «wn
torturing. It has, but never has
enough, because others have more.
Hold no communion with it; suffer
it not to dwell in your heart; floe
from it as you would from tire face
of a deadly serpent.—H. S.
A FEW COMPARISONS.
Some months ago we passed
through a fine looking belt of level
clay lands, fields and farms one af¬
ter another stretching out before
our gaze gave a charming idea of
the endless resources and possibili¬
ties of such land under careful man¬
agement. We were a little sur¬
prised that the crops grown on that
soil were not really better, but the
reason was very easily found ont,
which are these, a little guano as
fertilizers, a little surface scratch¬
ing as plowing, 50 acres as a crop to
to the mule, and lack of careful su-
perintendency. That kind of busi¬
ness will ruin the reputation of any
land or country. There were, how¬
ever, a few of those who own a part
of this land just mentioned who
when they went to break their land
in winter they broke it up sure
enough, deep and thoroughly, fer¬
tilized well and gave close attention
to their business in person. Those
parties were actually getting rich
right along side of their neighbors
who were not more than making
expenses. You can readily see that
these few money making men were
readily making and sustaining the
reputation of all that charming belt
of country as level as a floor. We
took pains to inquire what we could
buy those lands for, and in no in¬
stance could we get it ior less than
$30 per acre and much at not less
than $50, and no offers for sale even
at those figures, as men were wait¬
ing and anxious to get a chance of
purchase even at those rates. Schley
county is principally made up of
just such lanus, and as a rule far
more productive naturally and the
best can be had here for $12 to $15
per acre, and plenty of land just as
good as the above named can be
had for from $5 to $10 per acre. The
question arises, why then are not
all these*lands sold rapidly? They
must be sickly or else the deeds are
defective, etc? No, none of these
things, but simply this: All this
country has been isolated and away
out of communication with the
world as there were no railroads
here, but since the completion of
the B. V. & E. road all this section
has just been opened up to the pub-
lic and mark what I say the
lauds of Heliley county that are
selling for $5 today, ten years hence
can’t be bought for $20, and the best
improved lands that can be bought
today can’t be bought five years
h mce for any reasonable sum. So
you see now the iron is hot and it L
your time tostiike for a home in a
healthy and beautiful Country
C v can have peace and
% raise your boys and
girl* »■? and in good society,
«< ty was the first county
in the state that expelled the whis¬
ky traffic, which was done by a spe¬
cial act of the legislature. The peo¬
ple some, of them, were not satis¬
fied at this and suet coded in getting
it l < t(!o the people, which wa.
NOBLE WOMEN.
For many years the good Sisters
of Charity at New Orleans have
done a noble work in the Charity
Hospital of that city. Strangers
who are brought into contact with
them are impressed with the sweet¬
ness of their dispositions and their
fidelity to the trust reposed in them.
A Cincinnati lady who visited the
hospital thus speaks of them: “To
these plain-habited women, so quiet
and fearless, New Orleans has ten¬
dered the freedom of the city for
all time. No money is asked of
them on the bridge or boat; they
alone, of all the throng, ride in the
street cars without paying fare—
their habit is their passport every
where. Ladies bow to them as they
pass along the streets, gentlemen
lift their hats, and under those
white bonnets I have seen faces so
sweet and saintly that I have
thought they were fashioned thus
pure because so many dying were
to look at them throughout the
years; because they had so often
symbolized mother, sister, God. to
the wrecked and homeless and
plague stricken of the land. There
was one sister to whom I talked in
the charity hospital, whose voice
was the sweetest I ever listened to.
Even her cheeriest talk had in it
that little quaver of sympathy that
is like the minor tones amidst har¬
monious chords of music.”
FROM UCHEE MILLS.
It does seem that every farmer
would make some effort to improve
his stock..
The hogs which are to be seen
everywhere in the public roads or
lying in the fence corners, to say
the most are not worth their room
i n the road,
Their owners generally keep
them lying around breeding vermin
all summer, while he eats salty
meat raised some where north or
west. In the fail and winter they
are allowed the run of the pea fields,
and are fed, in addition to this, a
great deal of corn—still no meat.
Now, if we had some real good
hogs and would attend to them as
we should, furnish them with pas-
turage the year round, and keep
them out of the road, we would Ik
made independent of the commis¬
sion merchant.
Our cows, too, needjimprovement.
There is no animal on the farm
worth more than a good cow, while
a poor one is nothing but a trouble
and expense.
There are volumes of evidence •i
that, by crossing our common cows
with thorough I,ml Jor-oy
we can raise cows capable of giving
from •ao "> ■»'• ia.ou.l- of boMot
per day, while it will cost no more
to raise and keep them.
Can’t you, Mr. Editor, persuade
your readers to take more interest
in the improvement of their stock?
Every man would feel proud of his
native land if ho ehouhl see more
fine cows, horses and hogs raised
here Lot us hear from you often
on the subject. Schley.
CROPS THIS YEAR AND NEXT,
Tho „ easonH ao fflr hftve 1>e(>n ‘
|tloU8 Wld proinl8ln( ,* , for lt K 00(l
cr but it is establ hed fl(C t that
the Beasons have to be unwearied sup;,lenient-
ed by the active and ex-
ertions of the farmers. If we are to
judge l>y the newspaper appoint¬
ments of the grangers there is go¬
ing to be much idleness, at a time
when the grass grows, and the
plows should he running. Of the
farmers’encampment to be held in
Spartanburg the Charleston News
and Courier says:
“There will lie representatives at
the encampment f from five of the
southern .. states; , live „ men, men who .
have made money by farming, who
have made money by farming, who
have tested the productive capaci-
ty of , varied soils, who have made ,
experiments in seeds, in methods
of fertilizing, in the economics of
harvesting, in the use of improved
agricultural implements, in the con*
trol of lalwir, in the growing of new
crops, in a thousand different things
connected it—a great aggrega-
gation of experienced workers, who 1
will tell what they know about
farming, and teach their slothful,
lazy, or indifferent brethren
they, too, may make money by
farming. The opportunities for a
satisfactory comparison of methods
and results, at Spartanburg will be
well nigh inexhaustible.”
t In addition i is*.- to i tills ji • Commissioner . ,
Henderson 1 proposes 1 to have a camp
meeting Of farmers in . Atlanta for
cpvcrnl several iIhvn uajs. Much eutn rlriiftu uraiis nf OI men men
from the fields at a time when
crops must , , be worked , , and , superin- .
tended, 7 is certainly ^ calculated to
impair tho hflTVGSt yield. It is
comforting, therefore, to be assured
that though the present crop ' mav
be , greatly . damaged . . . by the , with- ,
drawal urawui of oi labor i.iutir, we we are arc assured assureu that in.U
the poor farmers will be taught how
t() farill, and .... that next .
year we may
look for prodigious
egraph.
Love and appreciation are to a
woman what dew and sunshine are
to a flower. They refresh and
brighten her whole life. They
make her strong hearted and keen
sighted in everything affecting the
welfare of her home. They make
her to cherish her husband when
the cares of life press heavily upon
him, and to be a very providence to
her children. To know that her
husband loves her, and is proud of
her, and believes in her; that even
her faults are looked upon with ten¬
derness; that her face, to one at
least, is the. fairest in ail the world;
that the heart which to her is the
greatest and noblest holds her
sacred in its inmost recesses above
all other women, gives her a
strength, and courage, and energy,
and sweetness, and vivacity which
all the wealth of the world could
not bestow. Let a woman’s life be
pervaded with such an influence,
and her heart and -mind will never
grow old, but will blossom and
sweeten and brighten in perpetual
youth.
Mrs. Cleveland’s prolonged visit
away from home and husband sug¬
gests to the Telegraph that “innoc¬
uous desuetude may even have
charms for ‘a first lady of the land.”’
She wants, perhaps, to enjoy a few
nights of real, old time “gal sleep”
while yet she may.
A Sporting Man’s Experience.
A CHAPTER FROM TIIK LIFT. OF T. J.
M’MULLAN, OF CORINTH, MISS.
Mr. McMullan is one of the best
known chicken and dog fonciers in
the south. His coops and kennels
are filled with the finest specimens
of game chickens and w“ll bred
sporting dogs.
For many years of his life, lie had
a serious misfortune, whirli be ex¬
plains ill the following letter, which
also tells what was the unlucky
sportsman’s real Mascot:
“You will pardon me for
ing you on a subject on which I feel
you must get numerous, if not innu¬
merable letters, but gratitude
prompts me to tell you about what
I regard my most remarkable cure
of rheumatism by your S. S. S. For
ten years I suffered with rheuma¬
tism. I had about “saturated” my
entire body. I had pains in every
part of it. My left leg was the
worst affected. Even today, t tough
‘ am entirely well, iny left leg is a
little smaller than the right, shriv-
eled from rheumatism. For five
years I may say that I was in dan-
ger Of starvation, from inability
work at my trade on account of this
terrible disease. When I came to
from Alabanm 1« on
crutches for two years. Oi course
all 0 |i t.. th naa . - ad } vpars I was at-
tended by good physicians, lney
,n« d,«e» of
sarsaparilla, which did relieve
me -oiue fur nils, but !*•*«
permanent relief until by a friend»
I used s. ». s. 1 uctei
mined to take a thorough course of
medicine, and 1 look a bon;
dozen ot the Specific. W lieu j
began Liking '.In un .wi ie ! weigh.
ed i:so pounds, and when i finished
poor man’s best friend, if he will
only take it in time, and thus save
him from extravagant doctor’s bills
and preserve his health.
With gratitude and with host
wishes, I remain, your obedient
servant. T. J. McMullan.
Corinth, Miss., Feb. 17,1887.
Treatise on lilood and Skin Dis¬
eases mailed free. The Swift
Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta,
Georgia.
CONSUMPTION CURED,
An old physician, retired from ac-
tive practice, having had placed in
ids hands by an East IndiaMission-
ary the formula of a simple vegeta-
ble remedy tor the speedy and per-
inantnt cure of Consumption, Bron-
t . hittef catarrh, Asthma, and all
throat and Lung affections, after
derful having curative thoroughly tested in thousands its won-
of feels powers ins duty to make it
eases, it
known to his suffering fellows. The
recipe sent with free directions to all who may for de-
sire it, full pre-
daring and successfully using. Ad-
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in „„. ( ;jnte!.v l>r-Sun.h relieved dr i>y Shiloh's Cure.
at s Mon
When you °o to A raericus, you will save money by buyine
your Dry Goods and Clothing at the Mammoth Stores of
THORNTON WHEATLEY.
His stock is the largest, latest,
His styles are the
Ill's prices are lowest,
His terms are cash.
Remember the place, Wheatley’s Mammoth Stores.
WHEATLEY’S CORNER, Americas Ga.
THORNTON WHEATLEY, Sole Proprietor. s23-3m.
ENTERPRISE JOJi OFFICE.
SATISFACTORY WORK AND LOW PRICES.
We have recently added to our office a new and first class
Rotary Power Job press, Fine Inks and a Complete Line
of Stationery, and are prepared to execute, at Low
Prices and in Good Style, ail Kinds of
COMMERCIAL AND FANCY JOB PRINTING.
PAMPHLETS, LAW BRIEFS,
CODES, RECORDS,
BUSINESS CARDS, RECEIPTS,
BANK CHECKS!
Anthing you want!
ill
The Ellaville DRUG STORE is
the place to get puke
DRUGS,
MEDICINES,
SODA.
CREAM TARTAR AND
FAMILY MEDICINE;
PATENT MEDICINES,
NOTIONS,
PERFUMERY,
TOILET ARTICLES,
STATIONERY,
LAMP GOODS
or any other article usually kept in
a drug store.
Dr. C. II. Smith,
Ellaville, Ga.
BUENA VISTA HOUSE,
BUENA VISTA, GEORGIA.
J.JIT . Lowe, proprietor.
Table supplied with the best the market
affords. Accommodations good first class
in every respect. Rates reasonable.
Shiloh’s Cough and consumption Cure
is sold by us on a guarantee. It cures
consumption. Forsaieby Dr. Smith.
FOR MAN
A
Mexican
Mustang
Liniment
ounxiB
Sciatica, Scratch**, | Contracted
Lumbago, Sprain*, Muscles,
Rheumatism, Strain*, Eruptions,
Barn*) Stitch**, Hoof Ail,
Scalds, Stiff Joint*, Screw
Stings, Backache, Worms,
Bites, Galls, Swinney,
Br&ises, Sores, Saddle Galls,
Bunions, Spavin Pile*.
Corns, Cracha.
THIS COOD OLD STAND-BY
accornpltahes for everybody exactly vrbat lsclatmed
forlt. One of the reason* for the groat popularity ot
Sy»^TS^SS3SS! The i.umbrrmnnneedsitincau'of
accuieut.
The ifoiiaewiihneedsitforgeneraifamiiy u.e.
The Cannier nwdsltforhi*teamsand 1,1. men.
The Mechanic need* It alway* on hla work
The MinernwinitincMeof emergency.
The PUneerneedsa-OMl’tgetaUnig without It.
' l ln hU *"* '** **
The Steamboat mnn or the needs
"STTSSSISSSSm best
wend ana safest reliance.
The Stock-grower needs lt-lt will *»■*• him
thousands of dollars and a world of trouble,
The Railroad nuiuneedaItandwtuneed It »o
mg like it as an antidote tor tho dangers to me,
hi» employee*. Accident* win happen, and when
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economy.
u <L“ ^SUS'JSt-'^SI 1 "and
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THE MOST COMPLETE FURNITURE HOUSE
IN SOUTHWEST GA.
I DEFY COMPETITION.
I have a complete stock of every kind of furni¬
ture; such as fine parlor sets, Bureaus, Wardrobes, Bedsteads of every
description and prices to correspond, i cannot be excelled in quality of
goods and prices anywhere. There is nothing about your house in the
way of furniture that I cannot furnish. I have all sorts and flatter my¬
self that I can suit you, if you will give me a Trial. Call and examine
rny stock. To those who have or are about to get married and will want
to furnish their houses, I insist that you gis e me trial.
A nice line of Silver Plated and Crockery ware; also a nice line of
clocks and lamp goods at prices that defy competition.
D. B. HILL. AMERICUS, GA
December 24th, 1886.
WEBSTER WAGON COMPANY
Is closing out its business and
r.i Has on hand
a fine stock of
L'' OVER 4000!
Of their Celebrated Truss AxleWagoni
•“MclvC.,, of all Btyle* sad size#, which will b« sold
Lfl • ifi -AT A-
GREAT REDUCTION.
NOW as THE TliVSE TO BUY AT A BOTTOM PRICE,
,t Wagna mada from Woqt Virginia Oalc, Hickory, and Poplar, tho best qnalitV P 1 ^
^ V c . abl a d superior in every particular to inferior grades now
,
on the market. E nbraca ths opportunity and save money.
A1I Wagons are arranted i'or one year.
Our farewell offer. WEBSTER WAGON CO,
Write for prices anti terms. MOUNDSVlLLE. Marshall Co., W. Va.
C^S:E3: STORE!!
' (i. w. CHIPtEY & co.
q!AVR Notions, 41W Hats, RECEIVED. New and Compete Slock ofDryG,wh
irie Goods and Shoes, Prices etc., etc., and invite the public to call and marked ( xa
i before purchasing elsewhere. We have
I our goods without credit prices, 1 und CAN SAVE YOU MONEY.
MILLINERY!! MILLINERY!!
We HATS have just purchased a Full Line of the tastiest, styles of 1 '*V r() -
and BONNETS, and Hat and Dress Trimmings, wnion
pose to sell
CHEAPER THAN ANY AMERICUS HOUSF
...,„ cmpLEY wid serve the Ladies. Call . on her , anu , „ he ,1
show you BARGAINS.
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