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Much sickness is reported all over
the State.
Watermelons are plentiful and cheap
in Atlanta, so says the Herald.
Work on the road from Elberton to
Augusta will begin at an early day.
1 A*. T. White, of Elbert county,
}l«H sold $600 worth of butler this
year.
General News Paragraphs-
Mis. Scoville has sued her husband
lor divorce.
Codfish are reported scarce along
the Massachusetts coa't.
Shrimp are being caught in large
quantities near St. Augustine.
Jackson, Mississippi, will soon be
the centre of four or five railroads.
Chattanooga will ship 75,000 pounds
of grapes to Cincinnati this season.
THE ■ TREE CITIZE
Petkusburo. Va-, August 7. —Sinco October i,
1881, to August 1,1832. there have beou sold here
4,118,040 pounds of loose tobacco at an average
priee of six dollars per hundred weight. I'he
sales have been much heavier than for the same
period Iasi year.
Mr. Stephens has written Mr. J. M.
Levy, of Covington, a letter thanking
him for his present of a littls silver
skillet.
If you need Billheads, Letterheads,
Notes, Mortgages, or Legal Blanks
bring your work to The Citizen
office, and it will be promptly and
neatly executed at cit y prices. May26
STRAYED,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
The fourth trade is-ne of the Augus
ta Chronicle will .shortly be issued from
that office.
Eight artesian wells are now in
course of boring in the State, and sev
eral others projea ed.
Arnericus received her first bale of
cotton on the 4th mst. It was classed
good ordinary, and brought 15 cents.
All the land now included in the first
ward of the city of Atlanta was swapped
riff a few years before the war for a
shot gun and pointer dog.
The Fort Valley Mirror says :. “If
the cotton crop turns out as well as the
present pro pects iudicate, the receipts
at. that place will probably be 8,000
b les.”
Savannah News : The Atlan'a Home
Insurance Company has been organized
in that city $160 000 of the stock has
been raised, and buisiness will be com
n.eueed in October.
Fort ValVy will vote on ’be 16th of
August to determine whe her an adva
lorein tax of one per cent, shall be levied
on th* taxable property of the town to
construct^ arte ian wed.
Hie Savannah Pc-.ny Local will en.
large on the 7t,h of Septemb r to an 8
page paper--just d .ubling its present
su-.e. In is spicy aud well gotten up.
Success.to you brother Otto.
\mong the rep rts submitted at a
recent mee ing of the Council of Atlan
U was that of the dog-eatcher, which
showed 683 captures, 24 escapes, and
651) deaths since .June 5th. The dog-
oateher ?>as ordered to suspend opera
tion ■! after the present week.
Athens Watchman : The latter part
of this week the top of a mountain at
’I ullulah will be blown over into the
Croud Chasm to make room for the
railroad. Already 4,000 pounds of
powder have been placed below the
'nme. It will he a fearful explosion
and a grand sight.
The Geerg'a R. R. will, on the 1st
i f September, run a fast train from
Augusta to Atlanta which will make
tlie fastest time ot any road in the
> onth it will leive Augusta at 7
rVoek in the morning and arrive in
Atlanta at 12; leave Atlanta at *2 p.
in , and arrive in Aug ista at 7, making
the round trip in seven hours.
Atlanta Consti ution : At a colored
eampmeeting, at Eastman, forty miles
below Mac. n,a deputy Marshal shot a
fleeing prisonoi, named Jake Tarrapy,
and killed him. This infuriated the
piob, who van the deputy Marshal into a
house, where there was an innocent white
man, named James Harvard, who was
shot and beaten horribly, causing his im
mediate death. The negroes mistook
him for Howard.
Monday morning a policeman, while
patrolling the beaoh at Atlantic City s
opposite the United States Hotel bath
houses, picked up a bottle, in which he
found a postal card, on which was writ-
ion : July *24, 18d2.—Two ship-wieck
paosengors from the brig Lucy, of Sa
vannah, (la., a-e this day in a dory
without food or wator. Unless we are
soon discovered we perish. The brig
sprung a leak on the 19th inst., and
went down. John L. Adams and wife,
Atlanta, Ga. The caril was addressed
to S. O Baffin, South Lake Weir, Fla
Chief of polio© Laoykent postal cards
to tb t place, and Savannah and Atlan
ta, notifying the police of the finding of
the pottle. •
The amount paid to the free schools
in Mississippi in 1880 was 1830,704.
Rev. Mr. Green, of Raleigh, N. C..
baptised 140 persons in seventy min
utes.
Arkansas is shipping immense
quantities of walnut timber to Eng
land.
The Texas Republican State Con
vention meets at Au^in on the 23J of
August.
One farmer in Leon county, Flori
da, expects to harvest 20,000 bu>bds
of corn.
A Bourbon county man h»s sold
l s 000 southdown and nnrino sheep
which will go t-> Texas.
This^ fall the StOnewaM factory,
near Enterprise, Mi ssissippi, will ]
make 12,000 yards of cloth a day,
Col. II. P. Thomas, of L' xington,
Ky., >old recently 5,000 bushels of
bluegrass seed at 80 cents per bushel.
The number of educ»ble children
in Mississippi is 426,689, <f wlr'ch
175,257 arc white and 251.438 an
colored.
Mr. Robert Brown, of Union
Springs Ala., on a lour horse farm
will make 35 bales uf e aten and 1,300
bushe's of corn.
A. M. Scales was rcromh on
the 9th at Gieenesboro, N. C., by the
Democr tic Conventi n for Congress,
by acc'amuuon.
WortcHESTER, Mass., Augu t 9.—
The cotton mill at Unionville, owned by
C. L. Tauch n, was entirely destroyed
by fire yesterday. Loss $16,000.
Mr. F. M. D.impier, at Charlee
Apopka. Florida, raised off'of twelve
vims tins year 300 w«t ruiflons.—
ri 'me of them weighing over fifty
pounds.
Beardstown, Ills., August 9th.—
J. M. Riggs, Democrat, of Scott coun
ty, was nominated for Congress on
the 1,521st ballot. Gener.il Singh’to..
ha ! 26 v t.s.
Near Grenada, Miss., Saturday,
Capt. Thus. Kirk man, a wealthy
planter, killed the colored woman he
had been living with, and her four
chil run. Ue then took morphine.
Governor Pousted, of Maine, {un
written a long and exhaustive letter
accenting the Democratic nomination
for Governor, and discussing the is
sues of the canvass. He expresses
himself confident of re-election.
Montgomery Ala., August 9.—The
first bab of uew cotton received in this
city was raised by W. C. Roy, Jr. It
was sold at public auction this morning
to J. H. Clisby & Co., for thirty-three
cents per pound. It classed scant mid
dling.
A few days ago a young man con
nected with a circus performing at
Maysville, Kentucky, made a taalloon
ascension seated on a trapeze bar.—
The balloon descended in the Ohio
river, and the young man was
drowned.
The iNatiomd Board of health,
at Washington, has received the fol
lowing telegram :
“Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 9.—
Dr. Turner, Secretary, Washington—
Sir : The epidemic here is develop
ing about fifty cases of yellow fiver,
aud the excitement is abating. The
people are organized and prepared
for work, and require no aid at pres
ent. I am bottled up and may re
main some time.
R. M. SWEAKENGEB.”
O NE larjje bay mare mule, with collar galls on
each shoulder, near the top. Any informa
tion will be rewarded.
A. A. WOOD,
autf.4,'82,1 w. Scarboro, Ga.
AT WAYNESBORO
ICE. ICE.
lee can be had by Wholesale and Retail.
Constantly on hand, at the Waynesboro Ice
House. C. E. SCHERER,
Proprietor.
mayl9,'82.t-f.
" T, D* OLIVER,
BY THE
CA.
A.X TORNEY A. r i? LAW,
WAYNESBORO, GA.
Will practice in the Augusta, Eastern and
middle circuits. Special attention piven to
Justice Court practice. may5,’82.b-y. '
Mei cer University.
Macon, Georgia.
T HE Fall Term of this institution will open on
the last Wednesday in September next. Stu
dents miiy pursue the regular collegiate course
of studies or a select scientific course. Large
and valuable additions have recently teen made
to the apparatus of tiie department of j hysical
science. The Law School has a faculty of three
professors, whose chairman is the Hon. Clifford
Anderson.
Board in “Students Hall" can be had at #12
p r month, and in private families at from #15 to
$20. For catalogues and oilier information.
Address,
Risv. A. J. BATTLE, D. D„ Pres.,
or JOHN J. BHANTLY. Sec. Faculty.
aug.4,’82d-m.
Waynesboro Earber Shop*
At Evans, Thomas & Fulcher’s Corner
A. H. WILLIAMS,
TON.-OUIAL ARTIST ON HUMAN HAIR.
Slaving arid Hair cuTing in the latest
style. Whikers Dyed and Hair
tihamp'x'ed in the most artistic m«n-
tv r. We have tne only first-class
slio.) in t"\vu. Clean towels furnished
to each gentleman. B;tV ltutli and
.Hair T onic FREE. Barbers p ditv,
and pr-uupt «t canon t<> customers.
Give me a call. J urn 9.'82>o-o
"denmsT
V or Blood Purifier
For working out of the system the
malarial p Ainu that is causing so
much sickness, and will cause much
more u'nless the system is cleansed.
Rev. Henry Walker, the colored
preacher, having authority given him
in the Gospel, Luke 9:1, cured and
prevented a large aniouut ot sickness
and sav' d expenses in his churches
with it until he was stopped, 'iHE
TRUE CITIZEN says it acts like a
claim, but is obliged to send t'>
Aumista for it. June9. 82.tuu
WM YOELKER,
Undertaker,
Waynesboro, Georgia.
Undertaking in all its branches at the
lowest prices. A full stock of Coffins
always >m hand and from $5 to $80.
Also, Cheat) Coffins made to order
from $1.50 to $10.
JOHN HAENEL. Agent,
julyl4,’8*2.b-y. Waynesboro, Ga.
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the public that he is prepared to do black-
smithing in all its branches, at his shop,
opposite Mr. S. A. Cray’s Stables, and
asks a share of the public patronage. He
makes llorse Shning a Specialty, and does
his- work promptly and well. He has secured
the services of a competent carriage makerand
Wheelright, and is prepared to make yout
broken or worn Carriages’ Buggies aiul Wag
ons as good as new.
Brices to suit the times.
Give him a trial.
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