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\ She gtrald and <pptrtisq. BY THE NEWNAN PUBLISHING CO. S. W. MUKUAY, r.u^in^sK Alanuger. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CITY AND COUNTY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, #1.50 A YEAR. OVER THE STATE. Items of Interest Gathered From Our Best Exchanges. Dr. T. F. Walker died at his home at Cochran last week. The bonded indebtedness of Glynn county is §54,500. The Crown Cotton Mill at Dalton is doing a flourishing business. The oil mill and fertilizer factory at Conyers is doing a good business. The ladies of Hawkinsville have or ganized a Ladies’ Prohibition Club. Gainesville is looking into t he ques tion of establishing public schools. Capt. T. J. Brooks was elected a com missioner of Spalding county Friday. The number of marriage licenses is sued in Burke county in 1887 was 281. Citizens of Waynesboro have already subscribed $23,000 to the new bank pro ject. The streets of Athens are soon to be paved with Belgain blocks, with sewers underneath. There were over 1,000 wagons in Americus Saturday from the different counties around. The Baptist of Marietta still have under contemplation the building of a new church edifice. The steamer Aid, now plying the Flint river, is said to have made §1,000 in one week recently. Will Wilhoit, of Warrenton, lias ten hens from which he says that he gets twenty eggs per day. There are t wenty names on the black list of Atlanta, only two of them being those of colored men. The Baptist church of Milledgeville has undertaken to raise §500 .for the missioncau.se this year. The law class of 1888 is the largest ever in the State University, containing about twenty members. Two Mormon missionaries have left Warren county in disgust, after failing t o make a single convert. Timber lands in Southwest Georgia are said to be offered for sale at Albany at 25 to 50 cents per acre. J. Troup, the prihcipal of the San- dersville school, died of pleurisy and jaundice on Tuesday night. It is admitted that there was §50,000 spent for whisky in Dodge county the year previous to prohibition. The gentlemen who are to establish the canning factory at Quitman have ordered the necessary machinery. The farmers of Whitfield (county are turning their attention more and more to the raising of improved cattle. The Commissioner of Agriculture lias a lot of tobacco seed in hand which will he sent to those desiring a supply. It is authentically stated that half the city of Dalton is located upon a rich bed of fine variegated marble. John B. Goodwin, of Atlanta, has been presented with a gold watch by the anti-Prohibitionists of that city. Both the Presbyterians and Metho dists of Oedartown are agitating the building of new churches this year. The Home Tribune, which started with eight pages and press dispatches, states that it is not paying expenses. An infuriated bull gored a mule to death on Mrs. Furman’s plantation near Milledgeville a day or two ago. There have been fifty thousand bushels of corn brought to Milledge ville from the West since January, 1. There are twenty-seven pensioners in Whitfield county, and §251 is paid to them each month from the pension of fice. Workmen have been busy for almost a week in putting up the town clock in the new court house at Ameri cus. A large majority of Terrell county farmers have stored away enough corn and meat to supply their home needs this year. Peach blooms for Dawson in January are a verv rare occurrence, but several were discovered on a tree in the city- last Sunday. W. II. Finlev, near Dalton, raised a globe turnip last fall measuring 2ti inches in circumference and weighing seven pounds. T. P. Parks, a negro, has registered at the Ordinary’s othee in Terrell coun ty as a physician, and will practice among his race. The fish ponds of Madison have been j The wild cats are troublesome near Hinesville. W. T. Zorn found two of his grown sheep killed by one of these mischievous animals, which has been an inhabitant of Milkhouse bay a long time. The Chattanooga Scales Company is * seeking a new location at Cartersville, i and have written to find out what con- j cessions can be obtained. They have ! been offered inducements by the town and citizens. Henry Lanier, cashier of the W. C. j & L. Lanier Bank of West Point, went snipe shooting last Sunday with a par lor rifle, and while adjusting the sight, the gun discharged a bullet through his : middle finger. Montezuma has received up to date | over 1,000 bales of cotton more this >ea- M>n than for the same time last year. The fanners are in a better condition now than last year. Some of them have cotton on hand. . There are 3,000 miles of railroad in Georgia, forming a complete net work, well distributed as to locality and sec tions, and reaching 100 out of the 137 counties of the State. The probable value is §00,000,00. The clothing linn of Charles Wachtel & Bro., of Macon and Chattanooga, has been forced to the wall. Those who accommodated the firm at home are fully secured, the creditors interes ted being Mew in York. William Meeks, of Coffee county, killed the famous belled buzzard a few days ago and lias the hell now in his On the bell are the letters LEWIS’ COMPOST PULVERIZER AND DISTRIBUTOR, AND COTTON SEED STREWER ! The Greatest labor-saving machine of the age. Will do the work of ten or twelve hands. Now in use by C. J. Harris, W. B. Harris, A. B. Calhoun, W. S. Askew, W. S. Summers, John Elmore, and other lead ing farmers of Coweta. PRICE, $io.oo. For sale bv Hardaway & Hunter, J. I. & G. O. Scrog- , , ,, „ , ** gin, Newnan; N. O. Banks, possession. On the bell are the letters • T „ T "C. F..” and the following inscription: 1 Grant Vllle J J. 1. Jones, SeilO- “Jonescounty, Ga., 1859.” | ia; J. L. Carmical, Turin. It is reliably stated that Floyd coun- j tv will have three Congressional aspir- j ants: lion. J. C. Clements, Hon. Joel condemned as breeders of malaria sick-1 s Branham and Hon. John II. Reese. Friends of all these gentlemen are al ready at work in their interest. Ida Atkinson, a negro woman, was robbed of lier baby by an unknown ne- gress at Augusta one day last week, who disguised herself as a milk seller. The police have been notified of the theft, but the baby has not been recov ered. A farmer who lives neat* Kennesaw mountain lias a small branch running through hi< farm, which you could dam up with a couple of spades of dirt, has the following sign stuck up: “Hunt ing positively forbidden on this place, but you con iisli as much as you please.” Last Friday a large flock of black birds approached the residence of F. W. Curtriglit, about six miles east oi Perry. Mrs. Curtriglit determined that she would have some of them. She fired the load from one barrel of the gun into the flock, killing sixty-three of them. One bank at Hawkinsville loaned §30,OOOi last year to farmers, and every note except one was paid promptly. Only one mortgage against a farmer was foreclosed in Pulaski county this season, and that was not done by the bank. The good showing is in a meas ure attributed to prohibition. Jim Whittoll, a negro, was arrested Monday night in the lower part of Douglas county, charged wit h stealing a horse and wagon, lie was placed in the custody of John Long, and that night managed to shoot Mr. Long twice and escape. Both are flesh wounds, in the right arm, and are not serious. Magistrates have finished the recount of ihe votes in the contest over the prohibition election in Hancock county. They rejected 210 votes—18(5 of which were “for sale,” and 24 “against the sale,” leaving as the result a majori ty of 3 “against the sale.” The Ordina ry declared 159 majority “for the sale. ’ A strolling negro woman preacher occupied the pulpit at the negro Meth- dist church at Senoia last Sunday night. Several of the whites attended the serices, and they report that she slashed tire darkies in every direction about lying, stealing, having more than one wife, drinking whisky and gambling. The line dividing the red and gray lands in Oglethorpe county is very dis tinct. Last week Alex Glenn ditched out his spring branch, and for several hundred yards one bank of the ditch is of one quality of soil and the other bank of the other. The difference m vegetation growing on these two soils is easily detected. Atlanta’s new directory gives her 72,- ooo inhabitants. The directory states that there are in Atlanta ten chartered and private banks, with an agregate capital of §2,225,000; there are 140 miles of streets, and 190 separate streets, 240 miles of sidewalk, sixty of which are paved and curbed. There are 151,000 feet of sewerage. The mortgaging that is being done in the Clerk’s office at Milledgeville is startling and shows a depressed lman- cial condition in Baldwin county truly deplorable. The moneyjn the county treasury is exhausted. When the pres ent-court adjourns the county will be some §2,000 behind. Jurors will have to discount their scrip this court. At Atlanta "Wednesday Lizzie King tiled a suit for divorce f»m her hus band. Henry King, to whom she was married in October, 1887. and with she lived until January, 1S88. W. H. PERSONS. Owner of RioTit for Coweta. THE NEWNAN CARRIAGE AND BUGGY WORKS. We are now prepared to do all kinds of Carriage, Buggv and Wagon work, and in a style that cannot be excelled in the State, or anywhere else. Our work men are skillful and efficient; our material the best that money will buy; our equipment thorough and complete in every department. In fact, we have spar ed neither pains nor expense in preparing for the bus iness, and our facilities for doing wnrk in this line are first-class in every respect. We have on hand the finest lot of material ever put into buggy or carriage work in this section of the State, and workmen that know exactly how to put it together. We do not get our vehicles “knocked down,” from the North, as many other manufacturing firms do. but make them out and out. This is our strongest recommendation. We manufacture— CARRIAGES, PHAETONS, LANDEAUS. HEARSES. ROAD-CARTS, BUGGIES, SULKEYS, WAGONS, ETC. We are also prepared to do all kinds of carriage. 1 stvle and at the lowest prices. Plantation work a buggy and wagon repair work, in the best stvle and at the lowest prices. Plantation wont and horse-shoeing a specialty. Give us your work; we guarantee satisfaction. J. S. WARE, (late with Summers & Murphy, Barnesville,) Superintendent OUR NEW YEAR’S GREETING! .. , i The petitioner claims that she was mar- ness and death, and ' abolished ^ her husbaml at 15 years of age, by order ot the City Council. an j that f rom the day of her marriage until they separated, lie treated her badly. Rufus Christy, of Athens, lias been appointed bv Judge Lumpkin, ol the Superior Court, stenographe tor the Northern District of Georgia. We have now on hand the following New Year attractions-, which are offered to the trade at the lowest living prices, ei ther for cash or on time— 1500 bushels Texas Rust-Proof Oats. 150 barrels New Orleans Syrup, (new crop.) 60 barrels Standard Granulated Sugar,, in barrels and half barrels. Choice Leaf Lard, in tierces, tubs and buckets. Fresh lot Mackerel, (No. 1) in quarter-barrels. Fresh lot White Fish, in 25-lb. packages. 200 barrels Flour, (all grades) from “Family’ to “Finest Patent.” 25,000 pounds C. R. Sides. 10 tierces Magnolia Hams and Shoulders. A large assortment of Plow Hoes, Plow Gear, Stocks, etc. Boots for ditching and field work at the “Bay State Shoe House.” Every pair guaranteed. Remember, the BAY STATE SHOE is the best in the market, and we sell them exclusively. Try one pair and you will be satisfied with no other. COTTON SEED MEAL! HARDAWAY & HUNTER. HORSES and MULES! There are now in Houston county forty.seven licensed school teachers, and'that number of schools are being taught* or will, at a very early date. It is estimated that there is about §225,000 worth of timber in the port oi believed that a Darien awaiting shipment. One hrm ! r raute j him. is carrying §125,000 worth of Timber. 1 & \n ex-Confederate soldier who had his lower jaw shot off during the war . , „ , was at Calhoun a day or two ago and W e have IlOW on hand, and applied to a physu-ian t«w a continue to keep during that he might draw a pension under the. r ■- recent act of the Legislature, lie is the season, a Splendid lot OI Horses and mules, (broke and pension will he unbroke.) and in such variety lur as will suit even* class of pur- E. E. SUMMERS OFFERS THIS WEEK : Fresh lot of Thurber’s “34” Coffee and Roasted Java. Also, Thurber’s Buckwhat Flour. A large and fresh stock of f J KincheiL of Iliiwkiusviilo. hui- . r~>. i -n i 1 j D. G. Hopps, of Jesup, was 73 years j inutile past year, ran live plows, and chasers, btOCK Will be sold old last October. He was born in ma( j e kh; bales of cotton, averaging •‘30 either for cash Ol" on time. Wavne county and never was a witness !. ., (l or bale, UUX) bushels ot corn. T - •, i ^ ; f-mnerl Gnnrlc nil vorieties in any court and was never supd in lus j >000 bu si le i s 0 f peas, 400bushels of no- Can be iound at Keith s banned Lroocis, an \ arietie.. life.' ; tatoes,and an abuiidant supply of fodder ; g ta y eson Bav Street. F T Shubriek, the assistant keeper and other kinds of prot emit r. Inaud.- ctxtc" c- T'rTTU CHEAP, of the 'penitentiary, who is now making : tion to this extraordinary crop. Mi. Km- JiIMS & KEITH. I his rounds of the camps, says that there chen saved 4,000 pounds of pork. j Cabbage, Turnips and Po- is not much sickness among t lie com icts ^ Athens John Finley was employed DRESS-MAKING! L m Georgia. bv the Cit-v Council to unear.h all ! tatoes. Sheriff, Sheriff, aifd is now Tax er. It is feared that there will be a fail ure of the peach crop in Clarke county again this vearas the warm weather is already swelling the buds. Some the bu'ds are nearly ready to bur bloom. X and MRS. JEN- i 3. Cole building.! s a specialty. Also, j with neatness and j guaranteed. I still sell “Log Cobbin” Le Conte Pear Trees. before the Mayor, had openly violated the prohibition law ot the city Ol . lbavethe original and genuine LeConte Athens. As tills "as tne m- t e> : Pear trees for sale. This is the season for haul made, and as all the prisoners ; transplanting. Order now, and in a few '* r ’ 1 the finest pear that and prolific. ~ FA3IBROUGH, Boston, Ga. j Soap at six pounds for a quar- tner 1 f. ’ rp negroes. His Honor, Mayor Hotlg- years you will have ti sonUet them off with i fine of SMif- >• « f 1 each, or sixty days in the eham-gang. ter. -Call and get my prices. E. E. SUMMERS. We offer for sale Cotton Seed Meal, or would exchange for Seed where parties desire to do so. At present prices of Meal and Seed, thirty bushels of the latter would pay for sufficient Meal to manufacture one ton of Guano—requiring, in addi tion, the proper proportions of the cheaper ingredients—Acid Phosphate and Kainit. We give below reports as to results obtained from Meal, properly composted. Hon. J. T. Henderson, in his report of the Soil-Test of Fer tilizers, conducted under the direction of the State Chemist at Athens, Ga., says the object of the experiment was— “To test the result- of fertilizing with a cheap comppsted fertilizer compared with equal quantities of high-priced commercial fertilizers. A compost was made of the following substances in the relative proportion named, viz: Acid Phosphate 1250 lbs. Cotton Seed Meal 5°° ^ s * Kainit 250 lbs. “This was applied on one portion of the plat side hy side with three standard fertilizers, A, B, and C, each at the rate of 300 lbs. per acre. The plat contained four sections, whose area was each one-half acre. RESULTS IN SEED COTTON: Compost, 3994 lb. per acre. Standard Fertilizer, A, .. 7954 “ “ B, .. .. 9484 “ “ C, 8034 “ No Manure, 455 ECONOMIC RESULT PER ACRE COMPARED WITH NO MANURE : • No Manure, Compost, Standard Guano, A, “ “ B, “ “ C, Cost of Fertilizer. Value of Product. PER ACRE. . V Gain. Loss. § 0 00 §1.5 20 § 0 00 § 0 00 3 10 35 62 14 32 6 00 31 82 7 52 6 00 57 94 13 74 0 00 34 54 10 34 “The mixture described above produces better results than the average of the three fertilizers used in competition with it. As it costs about half as much as tnese it_is much more profitable,” .Special prices made to clubs, and full directions given zor mixing the compost. McBRIDE & CO., Newnan, Ga. We would caution our customers against mixing and selling this compost, unless the State inspection fee of 50 cents per ton is paid. There is no law, however, to prevent a fanner from manufacturing fertilizers for use on his own land. ARNOLD. BURDETT & CO, , OFFER FOR SALE Cotton Seed Meal, Acid Phosphate and Kainit, on time^or for cash, or exchange for Cotton Seed. NEW, ASTONISHINGLY NEW • 4 DIRECT FROM NEW YORK! I I have just returned from New York with a stock of FINE DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS, HATS and SHOES, which will surpass in assortment, quality and prices anything ever brought to-Newnan. I have by all odds the most elegant line of SILKS, CASHMERES, TRICOS, GREYS, WOR STEDS, LADIES’ GOODS, BLACK GOODS, etc., ever offered to the trade in this city, which an examination will verify. In FINE DRESS GOODS I can offer a handsome line of Black Silks, §1 25 per yard and upward. Same goods would cost in Atlanta §2 50 and S3 00. ' Tri- cos and Greys, (different, shades.) Ladies’ Cloths, (different shades.) Black Goods, 25c to §1 50. Cashmeres, 20c to §1 50. In TRIMMINGS I can furnish Silk Astrakhan, in all shades. Beaded Trim mings, in sets and by the piece. Velvets in all shades, brocaded and plain. Silk Braids for trimming. A complete line of BUTT()NS, for Fine Dress (loods, suitable for all shades and grades. JERSEYS, all grades and styles, 75c to 82 50. An elegant line of LADIES’ CLOAKS, ranging all the way from §1 to §30. I have a handsome lot of LADIES' SHOES, the best in the market, without exception. I can sell a No. 1 Ladies’ Shoe, neat and dressy, for §2 50. The very best hand-made Shoe, all sizes, §4 50. A full line of MISSES’ and ( II1LDREN'S SPRING-HEEL SHOES, all sizes. A large lot of LADIES’, MISSES’, CHILDREN’S and INFANT’S HOSI ERY, all -izes and qualities, fromlOc to §1 pgr pair. will undersell Atlanta or quit business. I SAY'. Trr me. 1 MEAN EXACTLY WHAT E. S. BUCHANAN. M c CLENDON & CO., PRINTERS, STATIONERS AND BINDERS.