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THE ENTERPRISE.
Friday Morning, May 6, 1887.
ANOTHER RAILROAD.
SAXDEP.gV’lr.LE WANTS TO TAP
POINT AND ATHENS.
The Middle Georgia Progress, a
paper published at Sandersville,
contains an editorial urging the im¬
portance of building a railroad from
that town to Union Point, via Lin¬
ton. The progress says :
“It will be seen that there is
nothing in the charter forbidding
the road being built to Linton.
Indeed, it is not stated that it shall
go through Sparta., It has been
suggested Deveraux that the very level lands
about offer an inviting
route which would be from Linton
on a direct line to Union Point.
There building are some points which make
the of the contemplated
railroad an easier undertaking than
has heretofore been supposed. In
the first place, as has been suggest¬
ed in a previous issue, though the
country between Sandersvile and
Linton is broken, yet, hy following
the meanderings of certain streams,
the grading would be comparatively
light. Again and just here is a
teature that commends itself es¬
pecially, the S. & T. road is already
equipped with rolling stock which
now stands idle three-fourths of the
lime. Officials are already em¬
ployed, and as the iron is laid, the
business will begin without the
stock. expenditure Tha of a dollar for rolling
. road can be built if the
people will it, and unite with earn¬
est purpose to put it through. There
are other suggestions which occur
to us, but which we will reserve for
a future issue.”
The Dead Editor.,
He is gone. He sleeps that long,
last sleep from which there is no
awakening will in this file.. His ears
never harken again to the mu
sical voice of the “devii” when he
yells the magic word, copy. No
more will thatgood right hand grasp
the facile shears. No more will
those mellow eyes look pleadingly
ever the bar. No more will those
honest lips claim 1500 circulation
for The 'footer. He is gone- His
piaffe in the sanctum is vacant
His place at the free lunch counter
is filled by another. The
and weary shears rest in idleness.
The paste sours in the pot and the
cockroaches break through and da.
vour it. The we;l.worn railroad
pass rests in peace side by side with
the circus ‘comp.” The country
exchange lies lies im its wrapper (it al¬
so when not in its wrapper.)
The delinquent subscribe, receives
no more duns. The big pumpkin
rots in the sanctum and the farmer
'footer who brought it gels t o puff. The
is in mourning. Its credit¬
ors also mourn. The column rules
are inverted. The office towel is
tied on the door. The, “devil”
sleeps sweetly in the corner, wnile
the foreman is on a drunx and the
Damp printer steals thy rules and
the sticks and goes on his way. The
faithful gallon jug sits under the
table in silent meditation. It is
empty, showing that in his last mo¬
ments the editor never lovgot his
duty. The little clock ticks on, but
the editor will go on tick, never
again. His sand of life and whisky
tan out at the same time.— Jv.mms
(Jiity Squib.
Editing with Scissors.
The above remark L frequently
made in connection with newspa¬
pers, and is too frequently meant a£
a slur. On the contrary, under
proper circumstances, it t-hould be
regarded as.a compliment of a high
character. The same paper may be
ably edited with the pen and miser
a.ldy edited with the scissors. A
mistaken idea prevails that the
work of the latier is mere child’s
plav, a suit of hit-or-miss venture,
isquiring hardly .any brains and
still less and judgment; ttiat tbe promis¬
cuous voluminous clippings
rue sent in batches to the foreman,
njid with that the editor’s duty etui
and ihat of the foreman begins.
Instead of this, the work requires
uiuch care and attention, with a
keen comprehension ol the fact that
each day’s paper has its own needs.
The exchange editor is a-pains-tak
ipg, coDScietious, .methodical man,
always on the alert, quick in appre¬
ciation, retentive in memory, shrewd
m discernment. He reads closely,
cplJ8 carefully.oiaiie and,, amends,
discards and digests, never ignoring
the fact:that variety is a great essen¬
tial. There are sentences to recast,
words to soften, redundances to
prune, errors to correct, headings to
he made, credits to he given, sea*
Sons to ho considered, affinities to
be preserved, consistencies to be re¬
spected. lift knows whether the
matter is fresh or stale, whether it is
appropriate, used and whether he has
it before, he remembers that
he is scattering for many fasts; he
makes raids in every direction; he
lays the whole newspaper field un¬
der contributionhe persistently
“boils down,” which with him is
not a process of rewriting, hut a
happy {acuity of expunging without
destroying sense or continuity.
Ilis genius is exhibited in the de¬
partment, the items o£ which are
similar and cohesive—in the sugges¬
tive heads and sub-heads, in the
sparkle that is visible, in the sense
of gratification which the reader de
rive?. No paper aan be exclusively
original; it would die of ponderosi¬
ty. Life is too short, and hence an
embargo must be laid upon the ge¬
nius ot its rivals. Ahrightclipped
nrt’cla is infinitely better than a
stupid contributed article- The
most*successful paper is the paper
that is intelligently and consistent¬
ly edited in all its departments,
whether by pen or .scissors.
New Hope correspondent to
Hamilton Journal: We had some¬
thing of a sensation in our section
last Friday night. A colored man,
Buck McCullough, ran all night,
supposing that some mob was afiej Il
him to do him some injury. 8
told about Ins trip next morning
and it looks impossible for any one
to make it. He started in the settle¬
ment above this, but about daylight
he was hear here. He catne in here
screaming at the top of his voice,
“inudder! murder?” Hiram John¬
son ran to his relief and took him in
the house, and seeing his condition
sent for Dr. B: O. Poor. if is fact
and were his torn clothes m pieces, his body bruised
ail off except his
pants. This is the third experience
of the kind he ha^ had. Lait week
J. T. Dorougb, Jr., was hunting
with him on J. D. Johnson’s isknd.
He went to a smaller island wkh a
boat and took his dogs. He saw
somebody's jumped tracks and got frighten¬
ed, into the river, leaving
boat and clothes on the Lhnd and
swam back to Johnson’s island, then
ran down that island half a robe and
jumped side into the river again, swam
to this and went off through
the woods for life and death. A
tew nights after when he had retired
he, thought he heard someone out of
doors, and jumping up he ran about
a thicket. mile or He two through • swamp and
talks about it like it was
fun, and said that every time he
tried to go to any house they would
head ,him off, and that his pursuers
bad a dog with them that did not
bark that would be sometimes in
front of him and then behind him.
He is not yet able to bear his weight
on his feet and will not be in some
days. Most of the negroes believe
there was somebody after blip.
Ice Cream!
C. BODE
Has opened his Saloon for the Season
and is now ready to serve the
public with all sorts of
CREAM.
SUCH AS
Tuta, Fruita, Neapo
litive, Chocolate, Va¬
nilla, Lemon, Straw
bery and Snowflake,
Also
ROMAN PUNCH, ORANGE PINE¬
APPLE and LEMON SIIER
BER.T, also PEARS,
BREAD & CAKE,
Candy aad Con eefioneries on hand at all
times.
C. BODE’S,
mchlff lyr ATHENS. GA.
HORACE l CRANFORD
t —DEALER IN—
v
Stationers, Supplies, Blank IBooks, Mu¬
sical Instruments, and
Book and :Job Printer.
Broad Street, ATHENS,*,GA.
Il
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tiewm,
YMes*s, Slv3&&*«&
&W& AW
\jcptei^o^
Cancer of the Tongue.
Jty wife, some three or four yearn ago, was
bled with an ulcer on the side of her tongue neat
the throat. The pain was incessant, causing loss
of sleep ami producing great nervous rheumatism. prostration. II
Accompanying this trouble was
had passed from tfto shoulders and centered In the
wrist of one hand, she almost losing the use of it.
Between thesuff'ermg of the two, life had grown
burdensome. B 7 the use of a half dozen small
sized bottles of Swift’s Specific,she was entirely
relieved and restored to health. This was thiee
roars azo, aucl there has been no return of the uis«
Dase. H. L. Miudlebkooks.
Sparta, Oa., June 5, 1835.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed freo.
The swift Specific Co;, Drawer 8, Atlanta, Qa;
I5IW. 23d St., N..X. ,V..V
Cheap, Cheap, Cheap.
NEW AND FULL LINE OF
Watches, docks
Jewelry, Spectacles, etc.
At New York prices. Bepairing in all
branches done in best manner at
lowest rate s.
J. J, MINSTER,
At Lyndon’s Drug Store, ATHENS.
GO TO
J. I. REAVES’
FOR FANCY AND
GROCERIES, CIGARS,
TOBACCO,
And everything kept in a first-clasa,
grocery store at
ROSS BOTTOM PRICES
Good Flour GO to 70 c's. per sack.
5 lbs best Rio Coffee to the dollar.
14 lbs. Best Sugar.
Meal 70 to 75 cts. per bushel.
Good tobacco from 40c up.
Plow lines, Piows, Back, Bands,
etc.
Cigars at any price, from finest
to.cheapest.
Canned Goods of all kinds, and
the best brands.
J. W. LEAVES.
febll 3m Watkinsviile. Ga.
Again to tiie Front!
Though burned out during the re¬
cent fire in Watkinsviile, I
have opened up in the
new store of Mr.. John
Mcliee’s a full lineof
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
-SUCH AS
DRY GOODS, BOOTS & SHOES,
CROCK FRY, GLASSWARE,
PROVI8IOVS, C A N N E 1)
GOODS OF EVERY KIND, CI¬
GARS AND TOBACCO.
All goods sold
AT ATHENS PRICES.
SHORT PROFITS QUICK SALES
IS OUR MOTTO.
S. O. Hutcheson,
'VV’atkinsville, Ga. .
E. I. SMITH & COMPANY.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
BOOTS AND SHOES,
- 4 -All Goods Warranted First-Glass,4
CORNER COLLEGE AVENUE AND CLAYTON STREET,
Athens, i Georgia,.
To the People of Oconee fi’ty!
We Hereby Notify You that for the Next
v THIRTY. DAYS will Sell
we
FIGURED LAWNS, at 21 cents.
w HITE LAWNS (I yard width) at 6 cents,- worth 12) cents.
CHECKED MUSLINS at 8 cents a yard.
STANDARD PRINTS at 5 cents.
We also carry the Most Complete line Fashionable MiiKnery and Ladies
Hats, which we intend to sell lower than any other house in the city.
GIVE US A CALL AND BE D EVINCED.’
-fHlRSCHFIELD * & * BLOOMINGTHAL ,V
No. 14, Broad Street, ATHENS, GA.
Next Door to Childs, Nickerson & Co nl-3m..
5,000 DOLLARS WORTH.
Of goods sold at the Ten Gent Store,
You will save fifty cents on the dollar by
calling at the Ten Cent Store,*
Money Saved is Money Made, hy buying
goods at The Ten Gent Store,
J. A. GAREBQLD i ■
Furniture Dealer.
Upholstering and Repairing Neatly Done. Picture
Framing and Upholstering a Specialty.
A full line of Upholstery samples always
on hand.
CALL ON ME WHEN ANYTHING IS WANTED.
J. A. GAREBOLD,
al-3m Corner Hancock Ave. and Hull St, ATH KNS, GA.
BURPEE BROTHERS.
MAUFATURERS OF
-■**173' Carriages, * Wagons * and * Buggies »
AncI General Repair Work.
AT THE OLD BENSON SHOPS.
Near.Reave’a Stable. All work guaranteed, and at prices that dety com¬
petition. We have the best stock the market affords, and are practical
workmen, and can do the best woik for the least money. Bodies and car
riage parts made to order for the trade. BURPEE BROS.
V€* t'.' To the People of Oeoaee! Vi*
t
"When you visit our city make Our Store
your
HEADQURTERS.
Everything m the Grocery and Provision lino kept. Good Goods.
Fair dealing, and ALL are WELCOME, whether you wish to trade or not.
. Respectfully,
Talmadge Bros,,
md)2u-ti'. 74 and 70 Cl.lyt9n.St , ATHENS, GA...