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State News Paragraphs- 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. BLACKSMITH1NG IN ALL ITS BRAN CHES. : 0 : Horseshoing Specialty. : O : CARRIAGES. BUGGIES AND WAGONS Repaired at Short Notice aud in the Best Style. B R 0 T HERS. :oOo: Independent in All Tilings, Neutral In Nothing. o:0:o——- Not Pledged to Any Party, Faction, or Individual. •o:0:o- A JOURNAL FOR THE PEOPLE. — o:0:o • Devoted to the interests of the people of Burke county, tlieir in struction, entertainment and advancement—a faithful and impartial chronicler of all Burke county happenings—a fair recorder of all import ant events elsewhere occurring—a sturdy advocate of correct Jeffersonian principles of government by the people and for the people—a just, upright and honorable journal. In all these things the CITIZEN hopes not to prove remiss in its duty—it is a public institution, and every subscriber and patron is a stockholder— the Publishers are merely their agents, and their duties and responsibilities are reciprocal—we think we can promise that the man agement will do its duty, and if the public will do theirs, it will prove an immense power fur good in the community •o:0:o- f«RM§ m &HBS€RIJmeS: SULLIYA — :0: 1 JL ^HE undersigned begs leave to inlorm 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. apr 14 t-o-o J. O, BYRNS. j One copy one year, Cash in advance, $2 “ “ six months “ “ l “ “ three month 1 “ “ HhsT* 1 Advertising rates liberal, to be obtainod on 'Application) Address, S, L. SULLIVAN\ Business Manager, WAYNES BOKO, GBOKGIA. S8S