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—■ m COUNTY. Gossip as it Ci " Every Section. sa IE OF COUNTY NEWS Jpon Which i* Recorded the Hap¬ penings of Local Interest as They Transpire Weekly. —It is just one week from Thurs¬ day—Ohaistmas. —The 20th is the last day for pay¬ ing state and county takes. -Mr. M. L. Minor and family, of Redan, have moved to Atlanta. Santa Claus is coming, you will find him at Hollingsworth S. —Mis* Annie Powell has returned from a delightful visit to Covington, —Mrs. R. W. Trotter has been quite sick with fever for several days. * —The Union Sunday school will have a Christmas tree .during the holidays. —Mr. T. P. George is slowly re covering from a long and severe spell of fever. —A largo and fine line of dress goods that will please the ladle- at J. C. Johnson’. —Mr. T. P. George will move into his new house in the grove at the Methodiat church soon. Try BLACKDHAUIIT tor —Our municipal ... election docsn „ come off until the first Wednesday iu January but it- lively now. —Mr. Will McKnight and Mo T.r Williams \ have l bought Mr. * F. Wesley’s > store , house on Mam w street. iissrs , m„ probably alio, tho « of nasML ,!a : X hc right way to cure is to eradicate the poisonous which causes the disease, by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. —Glance over our columns buy your goods from those who fer your trade, and you will be tain and get bargains. —The legislature has passed a providing for the taxation of roads by municipal authorities as now done by the atate and — Pret utmirrn ha c nnir from near Stone Mountain there ing elect teacher for -It is said that CoUL J.Gti of Conyers, will receive a in the state school He is a brilliant and young man, and will fill the position satisfactorily. —It is with regret that we learn that Messrs. P. K. and J. L. and their families will move to At¬ lanta next year. We don’t see how we can give them up and trust that they may yet decide not to move. —The Methodist parsonage is being repaired and repainted and the new'pMK-G Rev. John W. Stipe, of McDouoogh, is expected to move here Thursday, and preach next Sunday morning and night. —“Every newspaper man,” says an exchange, “has at fome time in Ins business experience met the man who > Hiow take* more papers than he read.’ ” Yes; we have met “one or two” of that kind in this county. —Col. David Cagle announces Ids candidacy for re election to the office of Mayor of Lithonia. His rec¬ ord is known to our people and if he It re-elocted he will continue to faith¬ fully discharge the duties of the of* inris of Block’s 400 pounds of stick > pounds of mixed oxes of raisins; 20 at H G AND EVERYBODY. —Mr. B. D. Cross’i-y’s dwelling is nearing completion. —Oo out to tt»e school meeting at the academy to-night. —Dr, Gibb*, it is said, will be the next to cast aside single wretched¬ ness. So may it be. BLACK-DRAUGHT res eons Con*tfp«t!on. —We will try and arrange to have correspondents from every section of the county next year. —Mr. John W. Weckes and fami¬ ly, of near Decatur, have moved to his place near here. To such noble citizens a hearty welcome is extend ed. —Mr. J. L. Johnston has moved to town and is occupying Mr. Jones Wiggins’ house. —Mies Ida Johnston, one of our most charming young ladies who has been attending school at Oxford, has relumed home to the delight of her many friends, —Miss Ida Edwards, one nf Cov ington’s handsomest and most popu far young ladies, visited Miss Leila G »y Sunda y —what you owe so you can better enjoy Christmas, They are still arriving daily —Xmas goods—something to please everybody at Hollings worth's. r-Mr.Coly „ Warren, of Atlanta, . WM l,uwn °" 8 VW,t Snnd ^' “ 0ur hm ™ Cm Bt ™ 1 * n ° l 1,1 ® good condition as they should be. “ ,ve ? £?“*■ ^ , b ? for 8 the f -° ur y° nn * , 8 dance at the residence of Mr. T. E. Anderson . , _ Friday night ... last, f" ~t i ej - *•“- w “ “ rb .“" d *’' last and paui our sanctum, a visit. Fire WOrks Such “ waS nCV * er before seen. Hollingsworth, —There will be no pajier issued from this office on the 80th except a «*»U »beet for legal advertisements, —John Temple Graves, is to de¬ liv;r an address at the banquet of the New England Society on the **■*•■*• HaT W, * E OF caroui, a Tonic tot Women, —If yo« waut a good wagon at the lowest possible price, write to or c*U and see G. \V. Mambriek, Saap ® S K V '' ( ' a —Five hundred ladies and chil¬ dren’s Christmas hats at 5, 10, 25 eta and on up, and they are going fast at J. C. Johnson’s. —The bill granting mor; power and privileges to our town has been pawed by the bouse and senate and will be a law as soon as the Govern¬ or signs it. —Let all Royal Arch Masons re¬ member that, Lithonia Chapter meets on Friday, Deo. 26th. There will be work in all four degrees, beside the electron of officers. Xmas is most here. My Xmas goods are already here. Call and see them. W. H. Hollingsworth. —H. W. Gibbs went to At¬ lanta yesterday and bought a Sue Jot of Christmas goods—so be certain and call at the drug store before you buy your Christmas presents. —Prof; J. C. Hardie’s school closes next Friday and the pupils will give an exhibition at night that will be in¬ teresting and instructive. Our citi¬ zens should give the children a crowded bouse. WcEtBErS WIWE OF CAI1DUI for Wesk Serves. —The DeKalb primary was held last Tuesday, A determined fight was made upon the old officers be wTentE wW^SelfVvn found that the friends of Gen. Gor¬ don had carried tbe county by over two bupdreu majority.—Gwinnett Herald. It ia an old saying that you the news," and this is indeed new* to oar people. If there was any is¬ sue of the kind made in the primary except by a very few individuals we are oot aware of the fact. -It wiU only * !i ? : mm a. e re ,h *" LIVELY JACKSONVILLE. ■ V Local, Personal and Other Items Gathered " OUR LOVELY SUBURBAN TOWN By a Special Correspondent, and Dished Oat to Our Readers In Short Paragraphs. No sickness at all in Jacksonville. Now, would you let your Frankie ? Pound party in Jacksonville Christmas night. It is about time for the unfort¬ unate debtor to “fold his tent like the and silently steal away." Master Bobbie Mills, of Law renceville, has come to Jacksonville to live with his sister, Mrs. R. S. Fowler. Miss Ilillia Nash will spend the in Beaver Ruin, Gwinnett The boys are sad, and wear long faces in spite of all anticipated gayeties. The fame of the sociability of this lovely village has spread abroad in the land, and “the boys” flock in from every point of the compass. The number of visitors.this week are as the sands of the sea—innumera ble. Not much to do here this week. Everybody taking a rest for Christ¬ mas. There is always a calm be¬ fore a storm ; watch the skies over this burg Christmas night; you will see a miniature display of tho aurora beauralia. There will be at least one turkey feast in Jacksonville Christmas. It is said that some are born for turkeys, some achieve turkeys and some have turkeys thrust uj»on them, but yo correspondent belongs to the great majority who never get any turkey at all. 8o mote it bo. The B. P. U. is on a boom. There is a surplus in the treasury, new members are being initiated weekly, and the skies of the order are clear from the zenith to the horizon. There will be a new era in the an¬ nals of Jacksonville when the B. P. U. gets fully ready for business. A disappointed congregation as¬ sembled at the home of Mr. Wtg gins last Sunday. Rev. Mr. Hemp¬ hill failed to meet his appointment, on in his fami¬ ly. Mr. WeCleUaod, of Lithonia, conducted the services, and deliv ered an interesting and instructive talk. At the request of a number of cit¬ izens of this place a meeting is here¬ by called to assemble' at the resi¬ dence of Mr. W. J. Wiggins on next Wednesday evening at seven o'clock, to decide where to have the Christmas tree, appoint committees, etc. Let everyone in Jacksonville come out. Mr. Jasper Goddard killed a bog last year which he had kept 18 months and which only weighed 22 pounds. He says he concluded that something was wrong, so he joined the alliance and bought him another pig. This one he only kept 12 months, and when he kilted it, it netted him 800 pounds of meat. His query is, “Was this because the latter was an alliance hog f ’ Probably it was; maybe the alliance fed it. CUTS FROM THE CORNER. Correspondence New Eka. News scarce this week. Mr. P. J. Wesley will comuience workou New Bridge soon. Tbe chain gang left New Bridge last week. They have located in Arabia. Rev. Luke Robinson has moved to Dr J JL. Johnsontjlace Mr. Echols wiil complete the pillars at New Bridge next week if the weath Berry’s dog went mad last week while out hunting. Mr. Lee shot a squirrel and when bis dog went to pick it up he had fits. Mr. John Kimbrelt 'has moved to Polk county. We wish him good luck if to grow he will soon be with tbi h . -r stor - Stu'gaVi m FOR MAYOR. I hereby announce mvsclf a candi date for re-election to the office of will discharge u [ Lltho the " i:, duties > an “ of *** the of fice to the best of m v ahUitv. DAVljU CAGLE. Lithonia, Ga,, December 15, 1890. “ OFFICERS ELECTED, At the last regular communica tion, Dec., 12th, of Liljhonia Lodge, No. 84, F. A. M., the Allowing ierve offi cere, were elected to for the ensuing E^ year. J. Maguire, W. M. J. L. Johnson, S. W, Peter Malcolm, J. W. E. S. Steadman, Secretary. W. J. Bishop, Tit-usurer. R. W. Milner, S. D. W. H. George, J. D, T. W. Youug, Tyler. Alex. Sey, j- Stewards. E. Braswell, The lodge is on tbe biggest boom in its history—it has ah much work as it can well do. MACEDONIA NEWS. Correspondence Kxw Eba. Mrs. M. A. Howard is having her dwelling repaired. The farmers of this community are through gathering their crops. Mr. Tom Shaw killed a hog last week that weighed 328 pounds net. Mr. Jodie Fowler, of the Gate family City, visited Mr. B. G. Mitchell and last week. Mr. R. Park killed three hogs Inst week that weighed 798 pounds net. Age ten and a half months. The young people of this community enjoyed a sociable at Mr. lien Mitch¬ ell’s last Wednesday night. Mr. Toro Lee and wfe, of this com¬ munity, have moved to Atlanta aud will make it their future home. Little Miriam Stephenson, from near Lithonia, is spending this week with her grand-father, E. Park, of this com¬ munity, ; FROM DUN WOODY. Correspondence New Eva. After a long absence I wiil try and give you a few dots. Very little wheat planted in this sec¬ tion. Mrs. Mattie Graham lias a flourishing school at the new acath my. J. H. Lewis has bought a house and lot and has moved to our town. Tho health of the people in this part ot the county nevsj w ntbetter. Tbe farmers are ntx.t* d- iie gr **- — and hog killing Is the*»rder of Mr. Editor come to y alli¬ ance meeting at Dun peopW, witty and get ac¬ quainted with our Mr. Henry Spruill, who got so badly powder burnt two weeks ago, ia nearly well. He was loading some shells when two pounds of power took fire and burnt his face and hands very bzdly but for¬ tunately it did not burn bk eyes. Tbe ]>eople ore very well satisfied with the election so far as it went in this part of the county but the Squires neglected to bold an election in Cross Keys, thereby causing old man Akins defeat as he beat Teat teu to one two years ago hs that district atul he beat Teat aud Williams both five to one. The people in this end of the eounty think it hard that thqy could not liave a voice in the election, j PEA :ALS Correspondence New E»a. Mr. William Jones has mo vedto At louts. a visit Mr. J. Sunday. E. Law Hr 1 Id* parents Mr. George W right is recovering from a slight attack of fover. There is lots of cotton iu this com¬ munity awaiting an advance in price, Mrs. A. A. ‘ * Norcroes, paid her mothe munity a visit last riundaj A (h nee at the reMdeuc lou Ueo^woiT wss bug*?! by Mr. Dock Frasier, who 1 working on the E. T. V. and Go. rail md in South Georgia, was up on a visit recently. Mr. George Miles &»d Miss Annie Holcomb aud Mr. Bw -shanan and Miss Ids Miles, of Atlaau &, were here last Sunday Mr. F. M, Headers* a. e merchants, haa dispose «f his ty ami will to JS ‘ ' move will i »’S r kinds, all T.L.l tedt. c. G*. * CLARKSTON BOOMING. The Little City is Rapidly Building Up. - ——■» MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST Gathered by Our Special Corres¬ ■ pondent That Will Interest Our Many Readers. Prof. Johnson has moved into his residence. Mrs. T. L. Johnson visited Constitution last week. The Baptists have bought a large for their new church. Mr. F. L. Hudgins’ new house will be finished and will show what prosperous farmer can do. Rev. A. It. Lovejoy and wife vis Newnan during last week. Mr. John Rockwell, of Oxford, has been visiting the family of Mrs. Capt. E. A. Warwick, of the G. P. Road, spent a few days at his home here this week. Mr. J. J. Yerner will return hotue from Columbia, S. C., where he has been on a business trip, next week, We understand the pastor at the M. E. church, Kev. Reynolds, will move into the parsonage in a few days. Rev. Mr. Buchanan, of Conyers, was in town this week looking for a home. We would like very much to have Uncle Henry with us. The festival given by the ladies aid society of the Baptist church on Friday evening was largely attended and the proceeds will do much to wards seating the uew church. Some of our farmers are still hold ing their oottou. We hoard one man say the other day he could have sold some of the cotton he had on hand once for 10J cents. It is bad policy for a man to hold cotton—I got my lesson long ago—better sell when green and run no risks of money stringencies, etc. “A Free Trip Around the World,” The absorbing topic of tho day is the Home Fascinator Pub. Co.’s grand offer of a free trip around the world to the person sending them the largest number of English words of not less than four letters construct el in the sentence, “tion Rave ti,k Ql’KKN,” and found in either Web¬ ster’s or Worcester’s dictionary in bold-faced type. The publishers have made arrangements with the C. P. Ii. General Pas*. Agent, D. McNichoIl, whereby the trip may be made on their new palatial steam¬ er leaving on its famous globe-cir¬ cling excursion about March 15th next. 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Tbe secretaries of sub-alliances of cmroty alliance, will Had to me lists of delegates, and quarterly report at least ten at Duuwoody, Ga. Db. Laixebstedt, Sec. anola, Ga.. Dec 13, 1890. Fora Quarter. '-five cent* you can e best cough remedy in d a larger bottle for y other in the market. It I’s. as >N. , 18*. **>» * t® 1 T k t EHERE! ' . 4-Fall and Winter Goods.-* BglK 1 ■ f ’ fif-Vl, I have in stock one of the most Elegant Line of Goods ever Shown * in * This * Met! ...... ■> I buy only the very best goods in the mark¬ ets and if you will only glance at my stock you will find this to be true. * BIG STOCK. <J am formated h Shorn mtf tuAlmeU test tine of §tmrai JHenlmMe eve* 4 *• * . brought to ?)eJ>a(b county—md the goods mere bought Qheafi and wilt have to to be tiotd the Same way* —«f 4 CAN *. SUIT * EVERYBODY; I have on hand a fine line of gents and boy‘s clothing shoes, hat9, dry goods, dress goods, hardware, queensware, anil crockery, patent plantation medicines, supplies, cigars, buggies, tobacco, fancy family groceries, wagons, everybody^- carts, etc.—in tact everything to supply the need* of they THEY MUST s ■■■I’ And they will be sold—for they going at low prices-—;! are bought them for “Cash,” and, therefore, secured them cheap, I sell for “Cash” and they are being sold cheap. Furniture-Furniture a Specialty It will afford me pleasure to have you examine my im¬ mense stock and get my prices before you buy—I am confi¬ dent I can please you in quality and price. Come and s«c my stock. Yours Respectfully, -V J. C. JOHNSON, ! L d t A-Uaoxiia, ©-a,. DR. J. L. JOHNSON, ■ ■ , M- M . . . R£SXD£NTiD£imS?, ■ # XJ.t2a.onAa, Sesxgrla. SpgS! I am prepared to do all kinds of Denfc! Work in style and at reasonable prices. Plates are a specialty, and we go an n tee sadsfee* ery instance. 1 j|3f“0ffice upstairs in J. C. s building. . % ' ’• »- w ~ JOB W ’ m DONE AT THIS OFFI* n \