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quite sick Tilley has beeu p the .» cut down £ a a Terry on his rratul ate prof. I( ton- Chai r!a ‘^ cnecial lfthe the oil TV savfch 11 yiarcli 3rd, \ the Cua rt boast ' tK ' o-ain and is look ' isrton .■. I>r ° ve U.jr still vei'Vsick. r i him u! v e>y s ° on - .. li f ' is here on a ' l ' UUm r , i;c yair Montieello. r US Ga y, one of L'thonia.s 'K-urf *»* Uweek perach at . TiT leniy Js _ g un dej in return from Cu ' a lc 1 \fQU RENT. j farming land inside sgoo Call at once. lion. selling iW Compa jetiug , iaeM ona.Utan its. $1 ovorshirts reduced from is at the N. U. Co’s cents s atine mu reduced to 5, at Q al Union Co’s. ginghams reduced to 5 at s Union Co’s. ,j prints at 3 cents at the Union store. ciion in laces at the Nation Store. [the National Union Compaq see their bargain counter. L ,,f those bargains at the Lion Co’s before they are clothing to arrive at 5. JI. Almand & Co. at h P. & D M. fe Co. lot of bran, oats, y”d hay, corn i ( |j p M k Co. lot ol notions to arrive in a is at H. P. & D. -yp St Co. lot gents collars just U re . ji d o 7 nr * ® °' stock shoes on hand at ED. M. Almand & Co. stock fresh and new shoes at H. p land A Co. t eggs and chickens at I.P. A D. M. Almand & Co. isarfs dy the thousands at UP. Cain. I ®es less than wholesale as. ire and i see Cains spring before you buy. h A. P. Cain has the larg P s P ri “g clothing that ever payers. n g at Cains from $1.50 to suit. 'll jfh V handkerchiefs, 9, ain can sed you “ tali hose 25 collars, olesa’e per cent less cost. J® i young us kreceived men ! G. W- & A. durbies a large lot siyies of also 50 crush hats. best green coffee for lot of gents dress shirts leap. at L- eater is OUR CORRESPONDENTS. 6UA r Miss Georgia Stephenson, after a visit of several days in this communi¬ ty, returned to her home last Sunduy. R.’ Jj.H. is quite sad. Messrs. Colie Warren and Harmon Bishop, two handsome young men, of Bithonia, were seen in our midst Sun <jay. Come again gentlemen. Misses Leila McDaniell and Fannie Thrasher, after a visit of several days to fiends in Covington, returned home Saturday. Messrs, Tom McDonald, John Al man d, Ed Ewing, Bud Almand, Otis ^ty, an q Yollie Almand, of your attended Oak Grove S. S, Stto day afternoon. Mr. David Marr, of Lithonia, visit e d in this community last Sunday, guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Beatie Miss Ida Almand, a beautiful young lady, of your city, visited in this com m uuity last Sunday. Tod Griffieth, of McNutt, Ga., visited the family of Mr. O. S. Hay good tat week. . Messrs. Tom Bird and James Bare inis com' Mrs. Jack Walden, we are glad to learn, is improving. Iwonder who the young man is, that the dogs the _ have at crossing such a spite at. Youug men, remember, hereafter, when you call on your girl to alwyas cr y ou t “ Hello .' ” that is the latest “agony.” Mr. and Mrs. William Beattie, visG ted friends in Lithonia last week. We have not, yet, received a visit from the famous dog eater. r but nevertheless, it is doing much good for “ frying size ’’ boys, for they are keeping pretty close to home, at night We are sorry to learn that some of the young men from an adjoining settlement, who visit Oak Grove, spend a portion of their time on the Sabatk day playing cards. Five of them were seen last Sunday a week ago engaged in a game, and all church members, three Methodist and two Baptist, one of them the son of a preacher, one the son of a dea¬ con, one the son of an officer of the law and two the sons of lay members Boys we have a high regard for your welfare and would say never be guilty of such a thing again, boys st °P and think, remember how hard that dear old father and mother have tried to tram you up in the fear and admonition of the Lord, think how it would g reive and make theil ’ heavts ache if they knew it, and abova all, think how it grieves your Savior to see his professed followers indulging in such pass time en his holy Sab¬ bath. Lorlie. SHADY BALE Mr. Ed Huson of Jackson Ga, vis¬ ited Mr. G. W. Thornton Monday Tuesday. Miss Lillie King is still sick with La grippe. We hope she may soon be well again. Mrs. Berner Yeal is on the sick list this week. Mr. G. W’ Thornton had his land lines run this week by Mr. Jinks of Butts county. Mr. J. N. Parkeu is terracing his plantaiion this week in Newton Co. Some of the boys will go to Cov¬ ington to day to hear- Col. Livingston speak and will get a bottle of “ tan¬ gle leg,” and come home happy on - the wa y. The dog eater is still prowling aro ^ nd this community. One of our neighbors thought the other night the varmint had called on him, oecassionally he could hear a roar which lasted pretty well all night, SHEFFIELD ITEMS. Everything is moving on nicely in this section. Some of our energetic farmers are about ready to begin to put in their fertilizers. Mr, N. H. Capeharfc moved his family to his father-in-laws, Air. J W Swords last Monday. We regret very much to give them up, but wish them abundant success where ever they go. Mrs. Jane Born is very sick at present but we hope to hear of an early improvement. Later : We learn that Mrs. Born is dead. Rev. W. A Chastain filled his regular appointment at Bethel last Sunday and preached an excellent sermon, just such as always comes roin that able divine. Mrs. M. A. Woods has been on the sick list for several days but is very much improved. Mr. B. H. Summers visited rela^ tives in Centerville this week. Mr. Eddie Ficquette of Newton county visited in this community last Sunday. Messrs John Eeles and Oscar Ay cock has returned from Florida, where they have been spending the winter. Gents, we are proud of your return. From all reports Miss Darlina Belle is getting along nicely with her school. She is a lady of fiue instruC' tive talent, and has such a nice lot of young ladies and good children in school. OBITUARY. Mrs. Fannie Swords, was born in Frankling county, Georgia, |May the 16, 1S17; was married to Mr. Jack Swords, October the 10, 1845; and fell “ asleep in Jesus, ’’February 10, 1802, “ to awake amid the light of many mansions. ” To say we miss her in the community, in the church and in the home, by no means expresses the true situation. She looked well to the ways other house-hold. “ Her children rise and call her blessed. ” up “ Her husband also, praiseth her. ” Though gone from our midst she is not dead. She still lives in the homes and memories of those whose lives were made better and brighter by the tender touch of her sweet quiet life of inconspicuous service. Thus the Christian can die. What a demonstration of God’s power ! An emaciated form, too weak to raise her head, but strong in (aith in Cod. Con¬ verted in 1866, she joined (he Christian church, and continued to serve her Lord and his members until called to her rest and reward. As a wife aud mother none could be moredevoted. And as we look¬ ed into that kinly face that had been to us an o( ject of v< neration so long, and upon those hands that had grown brown and hard by toil forthuseshe loved, and looking back over her past life as we had known it, we knew, that, trimly, a good woman was gone. And there renewing our consecration to God, and taking this life that had just ended as our pat¬ tern, we turn away with a determination to keep sacred the promise made tj meet our Father in heaven, 8he was never heard to murmur or complain, her sickness was short, but very aecute and painful, she bore it with Christian forti¬ tude, Here one might fitly stop writing about any good servant of ihs Lord. For to her, our words can be of little worth, and yet, to accent some aspects of her beautiful life cannot fail to profit those w’ ho still survive her here below- 8he was two weak at the last to speak to her loved ones as they gathered around her bed-side, but when the pulse of her life had ceased to beat, and “ the silver cord was loosed, ” and “ the golden bowl was broken, ’they vho hid known her so well, felt perfctly assured ikat she had entered into herheavenly rest. May cur Father .comfort the bereaved husband ami Gvo pln’lilrmi and il. host Of jjrand- Woolly’s Letter. Editor Solid South If you will permit me, 1 will write a few lines for your readers. I can look and listen to the people^ and I find them oposeing each ether: and everyone seems to be looking for individual gain. There is but two le¬ gal parties, one for tariff, as we have it on us to gather money to support the Government; the other for reform. I say the tariff should be set aside, and the government should be supported by import and tux on all property, and not by revenue on the articles that American citizens coti' sume. This plan would be equal on all people of our goverment. Now, we need more money to carry on our crops and to discontinue the future sale of our cotton and grain. Our cotton that is to be raised this year, is now priced, and it cannot be changed. However, the different states could pass laws to punish all persons who sell futures. If this was done, and it undoubtly ought to be, the cotton states would let cotton and grain be priced according to the demand. There isn’t no more cotton at present than is needed, but the people canno t buy the goods they need on account of the scarcity of money. The labor¬ ing masses cannot get enough for their labor, or for their produce, to enabled them to buy, or pay for what they actually need. Still, men of ability are trying to iufiuenca and control every poor man they can to vote against democratic principles, for the reason, in most, that they are alliancemen. Let no man hold office that is not for reform in our finan¬ cial affairs; and let those that oppose the reform compose the third party. Yet, they may call themselves demo¬ crats or republicans; but they are for speculation and high tariff, and are no friends to the laboring class of peo pie. Tnere are more people, I be¬ lieve, living off of what the - farmers make than there are at work; and there are many that oppose the alliance, who know that, if the alliance could succeed to float more money on a ba¬ sis, that the people could control, and get better prices for the produce; that everybody could make more money, and all people would be benefited. I ask how many planters are there now feeding people to make their crops, and loosing money ? And The peo¬ ple that till the land are getting poor¬ er and poorer as the seasons rolls around. If this state of affairs con¬ tinues, ere long, the whole business of the country will collaps, and all the poor of the land will have to go West, where, with only an ox to plow, they can make bread, and the cows and hoys can support themselves from the grass and roots of the forests, and it would be far superior to the living we make here. The poor laboring people cannct stand to labor and have nothing left over; and the people that own land cannot afford to continue feeding people to work it at a loss much longer. The poor will have to emigrate, if they have to do it on foot. The time is coming when laborers will necesserailly have to have lot tt r prices than now, or they will have to spin and weave again and live more common and wear more common clothes and go where guano is not used and be a happier people. Econ¬ omy and industry will raise your own supplies. Farmers, you are (axed be yound ability. Iu my next letter, providing (his one is published, I will point out some of your burdens of taxation that is not necessary. I am not an aili inceman, but a poor citizen. E. Woolly, GANDERFEATHER’S GIFT. I was just a little thing When a fairy came and kissed met Floating in the light ' upon Of a hatiuted summer night, Lo! the fairies came to sing Pretty si mutter songs and bring Certain boons that else had missed mflb From a dream 1 turned to see What those strangers Drought for me. When that fairy up aud kissed me— Here, upon tin’s cheek, he kissed me! Simmerdew was there, but she Did not like me altogether: Daisybright and Turtledove, i Pilfercurds and Honeylove. ■ Th'stleblow and Amberglee On that gleaming, ghostly sea Floated from the misty heather. i And around my trundle bed Frisked and looked and whispering said. Solemniike and altogether, “Vou shall kiss him, Uanderfeatherl” Ganderfeather kissed me then— f Ganderfeather quaint and merry! No attenuate sprite was he. But as buxom as could be: Kissed me twice and once again. And the others shouted when On my cheek up rose a berry Somewhat like a mole, mayhap. But the kiss mark of that chap Ganderfeather, passing merry— Humorsome but kindly, very. i I was just a tiny thing When the prankish Ganderfeather Brough! tliis curious gift to me With his fairy kisses three. Yet with honest pride I sing l That some gift he chose to bring Out of yonder haunted Heather; Other charms and friendships fly— Constant friends this mole and 1, Who have been so long together! Thank you, little Ganderfeather! —Eugene Field in Chicago News. Not to lie Hired. A lady one day saw a roughly dressed man at work on the trees in a Portland garden, and stopped to ask: “What are you doing to those tree trunks?” “Girdling them, madam, with printer's ink and cotton,” was the re¬ ply. ‘ Tt will keep off canker worms." “How much does it cost?” inquired she. “About twenty-five cents apiece.” “Well, I wish you would come and girdle ours. What is your name?” “Hill,” the laborer replied; but to her repeated request that lie would undertake her own trees, he returned an evasive answer. That night she told the story to her husband, aud he burst into a roar of laughter. “What is the matter?” she cried. “Why,” said he, "that laborer was the Rev. Dr. Hill, lato president of Harvard, one of the leading mathe¬ maticians living, and the recently appointed pastor of the First Parish Church. ” —Critic. Properties of Cellulose. Cellulose absorbs water and, by its swelling, provides the softest possi¬ ble obstruction. On account of its low specific gravity, less than that of cork, it is valuable for life belts, and may be used in large quantities to keep a seriously damaged ship afloat. Cellulose compressed and packed in the cofferdam of a ship, to forai a leak belt, does not emit any unpleas¬ ant odor and does not decay for two or three years. When penetrated by a projectile it is not ignited, does not give off any disagree smoke, possess¬ ing iu this respect a great advantage over rubber armor. If dry, loose cullulose be ignited, it gives out white smoke. —Goldtliwaite’s Geographical Magazine. _ Some Famous Diamonds. Among the large and otherwise fa¬ mous diamonds of the world the fol¬ lowing may be enumerated: The Pig got. 824 carats; the Nassau, 81)3 car¬ ats; the Florentine Brilliant. 1994 carats; the Eugenie and the Green Bi’illiant, each 51 carats; the Shah, 86 carats; the Saucy, 5.14 carats; the Orloff, or Orion, 1944 carats. The noted diamonds of lesser size and value are the Dresden, the Hope, the Austrian Yellow' and the Polar Star. —St. Louis Republic. Kverybody May Have Wlilte Hands. Take a pound of white castile or brown Windsor soap, stir it on the fire with a little water. Add laven¬ der water or any other kind of es¬ sence when it is melted to a smooth paste, but do not thin it too much. Stir in half a cup or more of almond meal or of common oatmeal. Keep it in jars for use. This Is an oldtima preparation for keeping the hands smooth and white, which was used by the belles of the olden time. A boy caught in a wolf’s den near Hasanpur could walk upright, but preferred to go on all fours, and ran so fast in that g that no one could catch him. lie could not talk,