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Newnan, Ga., Friday, September 2d,1887.
OVER THE STATE.
Items of Interest Gathered from Our
Best Exchanges.
A new school for negroes is to be
built at Gridin. '
Ex-Governor H. D. McDaniel’s father
died last Monday.
On January 1st next McIntosh’s new
$10,000 jail will be ready for offenders.
The Elberton Loan and Savings
Bank will open business on September
1st.
Whitfield county tax will be forty-
five cents on the hundred for the year
1887.
The State and county tax Will be
$1.25 on the $100 in McIntosh county
this year.
There are about 15,000 cross-ties on
the wharf in Darien, waiting the ar-
el to take them Xorfch.
requires a sale of $40,000. Add to this
$2(1 $00 and there is at the lowest calcu
lation $60,000 worth of whiskey sold in
Greenville annually. The sales proba
bly reach nearly $100,000.
Some months since Col. Joseph S.
Baugh u, an Oglethorpe bachelor, adver
tised for a wife. Col. Baugh n was del
uged with letters from all over the
United States. In fact, more than he
could conveniently answer. In his
goodness of heart he distributed sev
eral of these letters among his bachelor
friends, who opened correspondence
with the fair writers. At least three
weddings will be the result of this cor-
resi>onuence, one being a handsome
young merchant of Lexington, who
opened correspondence with a South
Carolina belle.
At the request of a large number of
ex-Confederate soldiers, the managers
of the State Fair have decided to nave
grand Confederate soldiers’ day.
rival of a vessel
If the General Assembly sits until
the middle of October, as it is generally
believed tbit it will, the adjourned
session will cost the State $100,000.
A former member of the Legislature,
now living in Athens, lias an autograph
album with all the names of the mem
bers. Several of them made their “x.”
The day selected is Wednesday, Octo
ber 26th. The reunion will not be con
fined to ex-Confederates of Georgia; it
will be a grand reunion of all the living
ex-Confederates who can possibly at
tend. A large number of leading Gen
erals and other distinguished officers
are expected to be present. An espe
cial effort will be made to at least have
a full roll call of the survivors of the
battles that were fought on Georgia
soil.
fice to give him up at the presents tune;
yet, under the circumstances, we have
unanimously agreed to release lam for
the remainder of l#s term with us, feel
ing (as wc do,) a deep interest in his
future welfare. ,
W. A. Wood, Chm’n,
J. W. Sewell,
B. C. Sanders,
A. .T. Sewell,
I. R. Sewell,
E. W. Morgan,
J. X. Sewell.
Roscoe, Ga., Aug. 30th.
patronize the Sunny South, for it is an
honor to our section.
E. E. SUMMERS.
The notice of the Mayor of Macon to
the gamblers to leave town has had the
desired effect. A number of them left
Friday, but there are some who say
they will not leave under any consid
eration.
Aong the excursionists at Brunswick,
Saturday, from Pine Bloom, were two
fat colored children, brother and sis
ter, one a boy of 7 years weighing 125
pounds, and a girl of 14 weighing 210
pounds.
Sanders McDaniel, son of ex-Gover-
nor McDaniel, was admitted to the bar
at Walton court last week. Mr. Mc
Daniel is a graduate of the University
of Georgia, and took a good stand in
his class.
The little town of Buford, on the
Air Line Railroad, has been nearly de
populated. There have been forty
people moved from there to Athens,
and others contemplate doing so. The
trains will quit stopping there if there
is another such movement.
A drummer accidentally dropped a
handsome watch into a sewer through
a sink, at Americus, Saturday. As the
watch could not be recovered without
tearing down a brick building, the
traveling man pocketed his loss phil
osophically and went on his way,' leav
ing it where it fell.
There is a lady m a Georgia town
who has been married four, times, is a
widow now, and, it is reported, isen-
! r aged to a young man. She is a widow
ler fourth time, and has been divorced
twice. The young meu jokingly tell
that she “killed two of her husbands
and let two get away.”
The Hall county commissioners set
tled upon 68c. per hundred as the rate
of taxation for the current vear. but as
the Superior Court will hold three
weeks, instead of two, they have con
cluded to raise it to 70c., m order to
make sure that the county is not em
barrassed in meeting its obligations.
Dr. Eugene Foster, of Augusta, will
submit to the council of that city & re
port on the practicability of building a
levee to protect the town from floods.
The estimated cost of the earthwork in
the proposed plan is $31,000. For bulk
head and gates, $20,000, making the
total cost of the con struct ure $51,000.
R. A. Brantley has challenged John
H. Polliill, of Athens, to run twenty
miles for the bicycle championship of
the South, for $100 a side, said race to
take place the first week in September on
the track at Athens. Mr. Polhill at once
accepted the challenge, and the race
has been arranged to come off m
Athens, at the fair grounds, on Friday,
September 9th.
The men who carry the mails to the
country towns are tne poorest paid in
the service. The carrier to W atkins-
ville gets only 50c. per day, and this
will not pay for the wear and tear to
the horse and buggy. The contracts
are generally given to some firm up
Xorth, and they sub-let them to some
one who can hardly live on what they
get. The contractors make the money
out of it.
At Lexington, a few days ago, Oscar
Wheeles, of Simpson district, shot and
killed the fine Spanish jack belonging
to J. W. Echols. The animal had
jumped into Mr. Wheeles’ pasture, and,
being vicious towards horses and mules,
had caught Mr. Wheeles’ mule and was
literally"chewing him up., Mr. Wheeles
tried every way to get him oft, but
nothing availed save the treatment he
gave him.
Fort Valley Mirror: There .
use any longer holding to the delusion
that we are going to make a good cot
ton crop. It is going to be a very short
one. Up to a month ago it was the
finest we had had for many veal's, but
about two weeks of rain and a subse
quent crop of caterpillars, boll worms,
rust, blight and every other disease
known, has ruined the prospect for any
thing like an average crop.
Capt X. Fain, of Carrollton, has the
inaugural address delivered by ex-
President Polk, Xovember 14, 1S39, af
ter his election as Governor of Tenney
see. The address is handsomely printed
bn a piece of white silk, ISxlS inches,
and was presented to Capt. Fam s
grandfather, and will no doubt pass
through the hands of many generations
•. to come, as it is a relic worth preserv
ing The address is eonsiderea one
of the ablest ever delivered by the dis
tinguished ex-President.
M. P. Carroll, of Augusta, has been
employed by a number of parties to re
cover the usurious interest charged on
loans by the various banking compa
nies who have been lending money in
Georgia and South Carolina. He
thinks there has been loaned not less
than $100,000 in any county around Au
gusta, and upon these loans not less
than 15 per cent, commissions have
been charged an(l <tedueted;
cases 20 per cent. This is m addition to
S per cent, interest per annum.
The whiskey, tax in Greenville is $2,-
060 per year. Hence enough wliiskej
Jonathan Bell, a prominent man of
Oglethorpe county, died Sunday. He
was about 80 years old, and a sterling
Democrat all his life. Before the war
he was very wealthy, owning consider
able property in the county and hun
dreds or slaves. The war completely
broke him, and he has lived a life of
qniet and repose. He has had his coffin
made a number of years. He told his
friends on Saturday that he would soon
die, and to send for his coffin. He had
it made waterproof, and had tliejnakers
fill it full of water, screw the lid on and
turn it over and over. They did so, in
his view, and he was satisfied. He died
the next day, and was laid away to
rest.
Resolutions
Adopted by White Oak Farmers’ Alli
ance, No. 6.
Whereas, There is a bill before the
Senate of Georgia known as the Brady
bill, for the better protection of the
fanners of the State in the purchase
and use of commercial fertilizers.
Therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Fanners’ Alliance
of White Oak, Xo. 6, ask our Senator
to vote and use his influence for the
passage of the same*
Resolved, That we also request our
Representatives and Senator to vote
for the bill to abolish the Agricultural
Bureau, as the same is of no practical
value to the farmers of Georgia.
Resolved, That we also ask them to
vote for the measure known as the Hill
biH, for the better protection of land
lords and tenants. A. H. Young,
L. W. Bowers,
J. D. Johnson,
Committee
A gentleman of Gainesville has a
fine milch cow that suddenly failed in
giving the quantity of lacteal fluid she
had usually given, whereupon our
friend concluded that the cow was
sick. Upon examination, he decided
that her ailment was what is called the
hollow tail.” He pursued the course
usually adopted by cow doctors in such
cases, and split the tail, inserted a
quantity of salt, turpentine, etc., and
bound it up nicely. On going out the
next day to see how “Bossy” was get
ting along, he caught a half-grown pig,
which he Kept in the same lot, busily
engaged in sucking the cow; and this
accounted for the falling off of milk for
table use.
Americus was entirely out of small
change Saturday, and considerable an
noyance to bankers, merchants, far
mers, and people generally, resulted.
Small change, such as dimes and nick
els, commanded a premium, and was
exceedingly scarce even then, while
the supply of silver dollars was ex
hausted early in the day in the pay
ment of cotton checks. Such a state of
affairs will hardly exist again during
the season, however, as all the banks
clubbed together and sent to the Treas
ury for several thousand dollars in
nickels, dimes and dollars, which will
arrive about the middle of the week
and will supply the demand until the
cotton picking season is over.
Gov. Gordon has determined to insti
tute suit against Hon. James M. Smith,
a lessee of convicts, for the purpose of
recovering the money due the State
for and on account of escaped convicts.
The law declares that for every convict
that escapes from a camp tne lessee
shall pay into the treasury the sum of
$200. Several convicts have escaped at
different times from Mr. Smith’s camp
in Oglethorpe county, and notwith
standing he has requested a hearing
from the Governor, at which he would
set forth his side of the matter, and
notwithstanding several appointments
have been made by the Governor for
that purpose, Mr. Smith has failed to
appear. Saturday the Executive deter
mined to begin suit for the recovery of
the money, and to that end instructed
his secretary, Judge James T. Xisbet,
to prepare an order to that effect.
Earthquake Shocks in South Caro
lina.
Special to Atlanta Constitution.
Charleston, S. C., August 30th.—As
the anniversary of the great earthquake
approaches, alarm ana excitement in
creases. This, added to by the frequent
recurrence of the shocks. Three nave
occurred between 11 P. M. Sunday and
6 A. M. Monday. These were felt in
Summerville, Augusta, Columbia, and
at other points in the northern part of
the State. The disturbance was very
slight in Charleston, which would indi
cate that the center of the trouble is
moving northward.
Xevertheless the excitement here is
very great. A large number of white
people have left the city on summer ex
cursions. The negroes are greatly de
moralized, holding nightly prayer
meetings in churches, and many con
versions occurring nightly. House
hold labor is utterly demoralized.
Among the whites a vague feeling of
uneasiness prevails, but there is no in
terruption to business of any kind.
Until the 31st of August passes, there
will be no abatement of this uneasiness.
Columbia, S. C., August 30th.—To
morrow night, August 31st, being the
anniversary of the great earthquake,
all the colroed congregations tliougli-
out this section will meet in their
churches for the purpose of holding
—thanksgiving services.
Almost the entire colored population
will be in attendance, and they will
keep up their weird exercises of pray
er, shouting and singing until dawn of
day. Many of the negroes fear, and
some verily believe, 'that another se
vere earthquake will occur to-morrow
night, aqd as the time approaches the
nervousness and excitement of the col
ored people increases. Xo earth tremor
has been felt in this city since Sunday
night last at 9:55. [There have been no
disturbances since the above report,
Ed^
A Card.
Mr. Editor:—In order to correct a
false impression that might otherwise
be made by the late action of the board
of trustees of Roscoe Academy, we send
vou this short communication for pub
lication.
Mr. Edgar T. Whatley, the principal
<KH» per veai. - OT - —-- . , of our school at Roscoe. having lately
must be sold to bring a gaip of $2,000 [been chosen principal of the male de-
hpfore a cent 'of profit accrues. At 10 I partment of Hearn Institute at Cave
cenr it takes $20,000 to bring a j Spring. Ga., a meeting of the trustees
IN MEMORIAM.
Askew.—Maria Askew was bom Feb
ruary 15th, 1814; married May 15th,
1884; joined the church at- Xew Hope,
bv experience, in 1835; died June 1st,
1887.
“I am the resurrection and the life;
he that believeth on Me though he
were dead, yet shall he live.” Such are
the beautiful words given us as a bea
con in God’s holy book of life.
The church, through her committee,
can only express praise for the long,
continued and steadfast devotion of our
beloved sister. It was here the Holy
Spirit first whispered to her the forgive
ness of sins, through the blood of the
lamb. It was here the courage was
given her to rise up and join the ranks
of those who are battling for the blessed
Saviour, and know how great is her re
ward. She is to-day in that bright and
beautiful land, happy in the love of the
Crucified One. For her there can be
no mourning, in the sense of desolation;
no desire to call her baek to this life;
only a sweet memory that connects her
indissolubly with the life of the great I
Am.
To an exemplary Christian life that
crowns her to-day with a halo of glory,
are added the virtues of a true and
faithful wife, a loving and careful
mother, a kind and steadfast friend.
Behind this loving mother is left a large
family of sons and daughters. Tne
seed that she has sown in their hearts
has brought forth fruit that is to-day
crowning with happiness the lives of
her children. They have joined the
faithful few and are striving to so live
that they may join again that beloved
mother, no more to part, but to live
throughout eternity, joined hand to
hand, pressed heart to heart, with this
beautiful Spirit, And the companion
of her joys and sorrows, that faithful
old soldier of the Cross, when he has
laid down the burden of this life, will
join his loving wife in the land whose
greatest charm to them will be, no more
parting, but a constant companionship
m that beautiful, beautiful land.
Then husband, children, fight on!
She has gained the battle; to her has
been given a crown of glory, and to you
will be given the happiness of her com
panionship if you only prove faithful
and never depart from the faith of this
blessed Spirit that now rests in the
arms of a ©nee crucified, but now risen
and exalted Redeemer.
J. T. Kirby,
J. S. Plant,
A. H. Bohannon,
Committee.
By order of the church:
A. Ii. Bohannon, Clerk.
Xew Hope Baptist chui'ch, Coweta
Co., Ga,, Aug. 27th, 1887.
Camp.—Died of typhoid fever, at
Puckett Station, Au rust 18th, 18S7, Mrs.
Alice Camp, aged 25 years, (5 months
and G days.
How short the sentence, to contain
so much sorrow! It is no fancy that
“Death loves a shining mark.” In her
brief life, the loving daughter, the de
voted wife and the consistent Christian
were beautifully portrayed. Cultured
in taste, elevated in desires, and genial
in influence, a large circle of relatives
and friends will sorely miss the loved
one. Gifted in surrounding home with
attractions, how the bereaved will long
for those busy, tender fingers, and that
tireless, unselfish devotion that crown
ed her home with womanly graces!
She was an ardent, faithful reaper, and
the Master has called her to share the
harvest home of the righteous. The
Methodist church loses in her a zealous
member, but she is enrolled in the
“church triumphant.” Her dying tes
timony throws a halo over her tomb.
Her father tenderly asked her* “Alice,
do you know you are dying'?” Turning
her sweet blue eyes upon him in love,
she said, “Yes, pa, but I am going to
heaven.” He said again, “Alice, are
you in your right mind ? Do you know
wliat you are saying?” She replied,
“Yes, pa, I do know. “My child, can
you see where you are going?” With
the energy of faith she replied, “Xo,
sir; but I feel it.”
“Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord.”
We will leave our precious Alice in
the arms of Him who died for her.
Bereaved husband, sorrowing parents,
relatives and friends, press forward to
the “gates ajar,” where Alice stands
with outstretched arms!
How we love her, how we miss her,
no words can ever tell!
Earth is poorer since she left it; heav
en richer, sweeter, by her angelic pres
ence. A Cousin.
TO Be Given Away.
The Sunny South will distribute over
$500.00 in gold and valuable presents
among its patrons on the 1st of October
next. Some one of them will get $100
in gold, some $50 in gold, some $10,
some $5, and some will get silver watch
es, sewing machines, breech-loading
shot guns, and valuable books. One
single present consists of 27 handsomely
bound volumes of all the household
poets, Byron, Bums, Bryant, Brown
ing, Moore, Longfellow, Foe, etc. This
one present is worth $40. Everyone
who subscribes for the Sunny South or
renews his subscription (whether thqir
time is out or not) before the 1st of Oc
tober will have a showing atthe’se pres
ents. Send to the Sunny South, Atlan
ta, for slips showing the plan of distribu
tion. Everybody in the South should
OFFERS THIS WEEK:
Worcestershire Sauce at
2 5c. per bottle.
Bird Pepper Sauce, two bot
tles for 25c!
Two 25c. bars Soap for a
quarter of a dollar.
Two pounds best Laundry
Soap for ioc.
JUST ARRIVED:
A Select line of Toilet
Soaps at jobbers’ prices.
The largest variety of the
best brands of Smoking To
bacco in the State.
A fresh lot of French and
Hand-made Candies just re
ceived.
T. E. FELL & CO.,
DEALERS IN
HARDWARE
AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENTS, ETC.
NEWNAN, GA.
SEASON GOODS:
Milburn Cotton Gins,
Feed Cutters,
Cider Mills,
Buckthorn Fence Wire,
Patent Buggy Wheels,
Grass Scythes,
Snaths, * '
Belting,
L^ace Leather,
Wagon and Buggy Materials,
Granite Iron Wares.
VICTOR COTTON SCALES,
The best Wagon Scales in the market for
the money.
A FEW
WHEELER & WILSON
SEWING
MACHINES.
That will be sold low for cash, or on the In
stallment plan.
T. E. FELL & CO.
Newnan, Ga., April 1st, 1887.
SYRUP MILLS!
SYRUP MILLS!
We are agents for the fa
mous
"KENTUCKY” SYRUP MILLS,
recently improved, with steel
shafts, anti-friction journal box
es, iron frames and patent oil
ing device.
WE HAVE MILLS NOW ON
HAND I^EADY FOR
DELIVERY.
Order your repairs now for
ENGINES and be ready for
the early cotton crop.
R. D. COLE MFG. CO,
Newnan, Ga.
Notice to the Public.
Having been appointed by the Honorable
Superior Court of Coweta county as Receiver
for the property of the Willcoxon Manufac
turing Company and having given bond and
security for the faithful performance of that
duty, I notify all persons whatsoever not to
trespass upon the land, timber, or tenement-
of the aforesaid corporation, warning ail
would-be trespassers by these presents tha'
they will be proceeded against hi the strides'
terms ofthe law. For the true performance of
the above I have signed my 'name and given
my bond with security. Mr. Geo. .Booth will
act-tor me whenever 1 am absent.
„ . HARRISONS SARGENT,
Newnan, Ga , July-5tb, 18S7.- Receiver
NORTH’S
CHICKEN CHOLERA CURE!
[BEFORE TAKING.]
f AFTER TAKING.j
A SURE PREVENTIVE
-AND-
AN INFALLIBLE SPECIFIC
FOI
CHICKEN CHOLERA!
Has never failed to effect a cure when promptly adminis
tered. Tried and endorsed by hundreds, who willingly testify
to the sovereign virtues of the remedy. It is manufactured in
fluid form and can be administered without difficulty. One
bottle will save $50.00 worth of diseased poultry.
PREPARED BY
. THE NORTH CHOLERA CURE CO.,
NEWNAN. GA.,
And sold by all druggists at FIFTY CENTS and ONE
DOLLAR per bottle. Full directions with each package.
SMITH & WESSON
HAMMERLESS PilSTOL!
THIS IS THE LATEST AND FINEST PISTOL MADE.
FULL LINE HEAVY AND SHELF HARDWARE.
Will trade for fresh Eggs and first-class Butter, at the^New
Hardware and Seed Store.
A. POPE.
A. J. MILLER & SON,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
RATTAN CHAIRS AND SEATS FOR SUMMER.
ALL THE NEWEST STYLES IN PARLOR GOODS FROM $33 PER
SET TO $300.
BEDROOM SUITS IN ALL WOODS AND AT
ALL PRICES.
The only complete assortment of Upholstery Goods in Atlanta.
Prices that cannot be beat.
Call or write.
42 and 44 Peachtree Street.
MASSEY’S
EXCELSIOR GINS.
THE BEST GIN ON THE MARKET.
Gives Perfect Satisfaction.
PRICE REDUCED TO
$3 PER SAW.
FEEDERS AND CONDENSERS
$1 PER SAW.
GEO. H. CARMICAL, Agent,
Newnan, Ga.
HARNESS! HARNESS!
Forced to sell at low prices
200 sets of Stage, Buggy and
Wagon Harness.
Also, a large lot Collars of
all kinds.
100 dozen good Plantation
Bridles at 50 cents each. *
Highest price pa’J for hides.
T. <£. BURPEE.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS
FOR ALL. KINDS OF
FARM MACHINERY,
BUGGIES, WAGONS, ETC.,
DON’T DELUDE YOURSELF TO THE
CONTRARY.
For example, we have now on hand (though
they are going right off every day,)
E. Van Winkle & Co.’s Gins and Presses,
Smith’s Improved Gin, (which is the old
Pratt Gin, remodeled and improved,)
Brown’s Gins,
Carver Gin Co*’s Gins.
We are also exclusive agents in this section
for the sale of
F00S’ SCIENTIFIC MILLS,
for grinding food for stock and cotton seed for
fertilizing purposes. It Is the best and most
useful machine a farmer can have and will
pay for Itself in one year.
We are also agents for the WHITE HICK -
ORY and the HICKMAN WAC
carry a full line of BUGGIES, C AX ‘ VGES.
PHAETON.** and HARNESS, all d very
best manufacture, and they mpst brf We
are young aed want to build up a Nation;
hence, money is not so much an ohp. jt as the
sale of aDy of the above mentioned articles,
well knowing that forevery sale effected oui
reputation for fairand honest dealing become 1 *
more firmly established, We always divide
profits with our customers. .This is conli-
dential, but nevertheless- true,'AMD
MEAN IT. Come and sec us,
ARNOLD, BUKDETT A CO.
Newnan. Ga., Jnly -isi. 1887.—3nr.