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THE COVINGTON STAR EST. 1874.
CONSOLIDATED 1902.
SEMI-WEEKLY ENTERPRISE
ESTABLISHED 190o.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY
AND FRIDAY.
CHAS. G. SMITH
Editor and Proprietor.
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Entered at the Covington Postoffice as
Secor.d-CIass Mail Matter.
Covington, Ga., Oct . 3. 1905
The poultry exhibit at the State
Fair will be gnod.
The demand for dweltiug horses
is increasing and few are being
erected to meet the demand.
With the advent of the fall, the
price of cotton begins tumbling.
This fall has been an exception to
the iule.
The new Atlantic Cable from
New York to China and japan will
bo laid and in operative by April
1st 1906.
A “labor agent” of a cotton mill
was caught at Sheffield, Ala., Iasi
Friday night and chastised with
rawhide whips.
The State Fair will open in At¬
lanta next Monday. We regret
that Newton will not be represent¬
ed in the county exhibits.
An election for local taxation will
be held in Morgan County on Sat¬
urday, October 21st. Both sides
are lining up lor a hard fight.
The long drouth was broken
Friday and the dust laid, when a
slight sprinkle of ruin fell all day.
It was muchly needed and a wel¬
come guest.
Local School taxation is popular
in Georgia. E/ery county that
has voted on the proposition has
adopted it by an overwhelming
majority, says the Madisonian.
Mrs. Amanda Cobb, of Roystoi.,
has been indicted by the grand
jury for the murder of her husband.
She has been arrested by the sheriff
and will be held in custody until
her case is called this week.
This fall like the preceeding
one has been a dry one and many
of our people have suffered from
the inconvenience of having their
well of water dry or so low that it
it was hardly of any practical
benefit.
Every farmer who owns land
should sow a wheat crop. Every
tenant who does not own land
should arrange to sow a few acres
in wheat. This thing of depend¬
ing entirely upon cotton for every
thing is only making the rich grow
richer and the poor grow poorer.—
Henry Couuty Weekly.
Governor Jelks, of Alabama, has
pardoned Ann Baker, a white wo¬
man and Early Mercer, a negro
man, who are serving a sentence
in the penitentiary for miscegena¬
tion. Information in the hands of
the governor has led him to believe
that they were convicted by false
■wearing on the part of the State’s
chief witness.
Dan’l J. Sully says: “It rests
with you to decide the price at
which the present crop of cotton is
to be sold. You have shown your
ability to combat the combined in¬
fluence of the largest crop of cotton
ever raised, and the united attacks
of bearish speculations in all the
future markets of the world. If
you you can can get eet 10 10 cents cents for fn a crop of r
nearly 14,000,000 bales you cer
tainly can get the worth of the
crop that is many million bales
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X '" w»«a»*s£yb«»^r....._ REMINISCENCE .
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i Of the 7hirty*Fifth Georgia Reg¬
iment in 1861.
Mu. Editor :
Every department of all the nr
{ mies of cur war was fruitful of in¬
teresting incident on which the
.survivors delight to dwell and of
which they will never grow weary.
What I am about to relate, hap¬
pened in the department of trans
i potation
It is a fact, likely to Le over¬
looked that the panic among the
teamsters at the First Manassas
contributed largely to what finally
ripened into the disastrous rout ot
the Federal army. But to our in
cid nt:
The 35th Ga. Regiment, in the
closing months of 1861, after com¬
pleting its organization in Rich¬
mond, was ordered to Evansport
on the southern banks of the Po
t >mac. The suddenness of the
ord t led us to believe that it
meant business.
We left the cars on a dull and
dreary Sunday afternoon, at Brooks
Station a few miles from our des¬
tinations. Friend and foe were
cleaning out their big guns along
the river, but we gave the firing a
more serious interpretation.
Early Monday morumg the heav
ily loaded wagons were set in mo¬
tion and quite a number of six
mule teams were required to move
us.
On a hill not far from where we
started one of our finest teams—
Col. Ii. L Thomas’ staff wagon—
came to a stall in trying to turn
the steepest part of the hill, very
muddy and badly cut by the army
wagons. The new road, through
the woods, proved to be far worse.
Our six mules were at a stubborn
standstill, looking back at the
timer m despair and prancing
about over the ground when urged
by the driver’s whip and yell.
All hands caught the spirit
the team and were standing and
lolling about discussing the situa
ti >n and the probabilities of get¬
ting away from there, when up
walked a tall, raw bone fellow with
his hands in his pockets and wear¬
ing on his face a look of astonish¬
ment; and he went on to observe,
“Men, why don’t you pull out of
here? No reason lor staying here,
stuck in the mud this way.”
“Stranger,” said onr driver, “if
you know Miy more about wagon¬
ing than I do, you can handle these
mules, '’ whereupon he dismounted
and surrendered with some grace,
temporarily, the houors of the
reins.
Now, there was about the stran
ger an air that told plainly that
he had been raised on wagoning.
He followed|up his criticism ot the
situation with rather a pompous
bearing dropped an occasional re¬
mark of surprise that soldiers,with
any experience at all should be
there when they ought to have
been to the top of the hill and on
the road long ago.
The way he took charge led us
to believe that he was going to
shorten our time in that mire in
short order. He first walked
around the wagon and examined
every part minutely—the wheel,
the body, the tongue, the load.
Then he examined the team, one
mule at a time and the gear even
to the smallest strap and buckle.
He would open the blinds on the
bridle and look seriously and
thoughtfully into the faces of the
mules, patting them and saying
strange things to them in a low
voice. He halted at the leader—a
• mall mule black and shiny as a
wheat bug and trim as a deer, with
foxy ears and a trifle more nervous
than the rest of the team ' When >
he turned ayvay from that mule we
paw that he had introduced him,
• mall as he was as the biggest fac¬
tor in his calculations.
The examination of the wagon
and gear, and the diagnosis of the
team oil over, he addressed us:
<. xt uW m f”’ 1 r ll,8t be obeyed in
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all my orders: I want the driver to
get ou his saddle mule, and at the
proper time, I will mount the
leader. I want as many of von as
can, toj.et your hands nnd .ho,.I-
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ders to the wheels. I don’t
a word said, or a thing done, un
til I give word. I will bring a
whoop, and then all together, every
man in his place and at his best.”
Not being stout enough to count,
and unwilling to be in the way,
and there being more of stalwart
men than were needed, I took my
stand, out of the way, by a little
tree to watch the outcome.
The stranger’s legs were ao long
it was an easy thing to mount the
little leader. Settling himself
firmly on his whoop and every man
at the wheels bowed himself, and
responded with a loud, stirring yell,
enough, it seemed to me, to scare
the team to the top of the hill, and
it would have done it if there had
been the calculated virtue in the
whoop and surge. The little steel
spring leader, so frightened that he
did not know what else to do,
reached his back, and measured
the ground among the saplings
with his rider nt a distance that
would have sounded increditable
if I had not seen it with my own
eyes. There lay the rider until he
could lecover his breath, and all
over the ground were the men roll¬
ing aud making the woods ring
with the soldier laugh, and the sol¬
dier remarks. Rising from the
ground, and brushing off the leaves
and mud, our expert in wagoning
left the subject with us, aud,
stooped a little about the shoulders
and his hands returned to his
packets, he walked quietly away,
casting a parting glance at the lit- !
tie black mule in the lead, and a
1°°^ won der at us that we should
,mve f ‘ >und so milch to lan gh at in
s) small a space.
Gi;o. W. Yarbrough.
Oxford, Ga.
Forced to Starve.
° f i’ on “ n1, Ky • says:
Lor -0 years T I suffered agonies, with
a sore on my upper lip so painful, souse
times, that I could noteat. After vainly
trying everything else. I cured it with
Arnica Salve ” It’s great for
burn* cu»s and wounds. At Brooks k
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Doctors Said He Would Not Live.
Peter Fry, Woodruff, Pa., writes “Af
ter doctoring for years with the best
physicians in Wayuesburg, and still
getting worse, the doctors advised me if
I had any business to attend to I had
better attend to it nt once, as
. not live
mouth M there w»« no euro for ine.
Foley’s Kidney Cure was recommended
me by a friend and ! iu.tne.li.ly sent
son to the store for it and after tak
bottles I beaan to get better and
to improve until I was en
well."
One Lady’s Recommendation So*d
Fifty Boxes of Chamberlain’s
Stomach and Liver Tablets.
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I have, I believe, sold fiu * ,
Chamberlain's Stomach vZ ° f
and I ZZ * a ’ ® l6
' ^ on the recommendation n >ne » , here who
first boudit ^ ^ „e,” a box ,il f»l Xl^h, * -
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j of bor, these »n.l friends ,bo„ t th . ? V*"
Chester tablets— P M J si Z W
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effect of these Tablets F^aale m b^all
he gists with in everybody. d^ r*
Covington and Bibb ^ M VIY ‘ Co
Pcrterdule. -
j Bent Her Double.
; “1 knew for four weeks *
no one, ,
I was sick with typhoid » n ‘I
trouble," writes Mrs. Annie Hunter,
lttabui * Prt “ S- better*
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although I had one « -> ------- , p
could get I bent double am <
was ‘““aSS'l
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Prog Co,; price 50c,