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CHATTOOGA NEWS. "FRIDAY MORNINGUPDY -7, 1888? Ij W. Sturdivant & c|] > —o < DEALERS IJST STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES OF EVERY KIND. BACON, LARD, FLOUR, MEAL, SUGAR, COFFEE, TEA, RICE, GRITS, CAN FRUITS, MEATS, RASINS, CURRANTS, BAKING POWDERS. Also —A FULL LINE OF Drugs, Hardware, Queensware, Tobacco, Cigars; and Country- Produce a Specialty. . CHEAP For Cash or Barter.! Local and Personal. ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR REPRESENTATIVE. To the I’Kori.E of Chattooga Coun ty: I am a candidate for re-election as Representative of Chattooga county in the General Assembly of Georgia, and I respectfully ask the vote of each of my fellow-citizens of the comity. Election I first Wednesday in October next. W. M. iIF.NHY. July Kit 11, 1888. W. D. Taylor visited Rome Tues day. Prof. Satu Jones was in town Sunday. NptAee change of schedule of the ' C., R & C. Master Dick Maddox is conva-! lenscing. . I We had to leave, over some ar-1 ticles until next week. Ice cold sodawatcr and lemonade! at Buck Hollis’s Store. Mrs. 11. M. Burkhalter has been very ill for the past week. t ome out to the Presbyterian! prayer meeting Friday evening. There is considerable complaint of the rust having attacked cotton.! Joe Cox is now on a business trip in Northern Alabama selling! bee gums. Oliver L. Wyly returned from his trip west this week, looking well and hale. The obituaries of Mrs. 11. G. Ba ker and Mrs. J. R. Doster will ap pear next week. H. T. Evins has sold his steam saw mill to J. J. Ross, the consider ation being SBOO. Miss Belle Steele spent some time visiting Mrs. Margaret Close at Raccoon last week. The Baptist prayer meeting will be held at Jesse Sewell’s Thursday evening of this week. For sale, at a bargain, one Zim merman Fruit Dryer. Good one. Hollis <t Hixton. ■WANTED —50 shouts; will pay! the cash for them. Apply to John- ' son it Clemmens, Summerville. Miss Tennie Pursley, of near Trion, a charming young lady, paid this office a visit Monday. Woodbury Fruit Jars, quartsand half gallons, best on the market, for sale by Hollis & Hinton. For sale, a milch cow, giving 14 gallons of milk a. day. Apply at this oilice for further information. J. E. Burns, of Chattanooga, was in Lawn Tuesday. He will open up a liquor house in this place the Ist of August. The Indian show nuisance visited this place last Friday. We honest-. ly believe the monkey was the besti part about it. We return thanks to Dr. J. M. I). King, of Alpine for a box of nice grapes sent Tuesday. They were duly appreciated. Misses Rhoda Bandy and Lois Maxey, of Trion, visited the aunt of the latter, Mrs. L. C. Johnson, at this place last Sunday. E. W. Lee has a cotton press which has been in use only one Vear for sab*, with fixtures. Cail on him for particulars. A peculiarity of Hood s Sarsa parilia is that while it purifies the blood, it Imparts new vigor to every function of the body. B. B. Coleman, of this paper, went to Chattanooga Tuesday. This was our opportunity for get ting even with him for bad treat- I ment when we went to that city some time ago, but we forbear. ! Elam Johnson, of Chattanooga, came down last week on a visit to the family of S. W. McWhorter. He returned Tuesday. John W. Cain has sold his prop erty in Broomtown, consisting of a residence, mill and three acres of land, to Dock Wilson. J. T. Holland and wife and Mrs. J. R. Clemmons left Tuesday on a visit to relatives in Texas. They will be gone several weeks. Tom Butler in attempting to mount a Texas pony last Sunday was struck by the pony in such a way as to break his jaw bone. Our prices tell the people and the people tell the price. Result: quick sales, crowded store and customers happy. Hollis <fc Hixton. Miss Mattie 'Williams, a lovely young lady of Atlanta, is visiting her cousins, Misses Ellen and Lizzie Hawkins, of this place this week. M iss Lily Shropshire, after spend-, ing two weeks in Rome very pleas antly, returned to Chattooga coun ty yesterday.—Rome Tribune, 21st. W. C. Johnson, formerly of this place but now of Chattanooga, was in town for a day or two this week sharking hands with his many frjends Will some one of our subscribers j who possess it kindly send us a copy of the News of date of June Ist! ’88? It will be a great favor to us. | I Grill' Harper, six years old sen of !W. R. Harper, of Broomtown, was kicked by a mule last Saturday and hurt very badly : not danger ously, however. Eugene Smith brought to this office last week a sweet ’tater of of this year’s raising which meas ured 5 inches long and large around .in proportion. D. W. Smith organized last week | a regular Farmers’ Alliance at Chattooga in Walker county, the first one in that county. It began with 33 members. J. W. Pitts calls the attention of Alliance men to his prices on all articles ’of merchandise. He will sell you your goods at prices as low I as goods can be sold. I Mr. W. 11. Owings, of Dirttown, I found in his garden recently on I one of his pea vines a pea hull 304 I inches long filled with peas. It was ; of the cow pea variety. | A. B. Rhinehart sent to this office ! Monday a cluster of nine peaches ion one limb. On these peaches and I the potato Eugene Smith brought in we have been faring sumptuously | this week. | This week’s edition of the News i numbers 1,130. Next week it will number something like 1,300. Be ware of advertising anything in next week’s paper unless you want to sell it. B. L. Knox, the popular proprie tor of the Knox House, has a new j title now. It was given him by one j of the darkies whom he helped ar rest last Saturday. He called Mr. ! Knox the “eatin’ boss.” Children will freely take Dr. J. 11. McLean's Tar Wine Lung Balm; i unlike cough syrups, it contains no : opium, will soothe and heal any dis-! I case of the throat or lungs quicker I ] than any other remedy. j: Our young friend Robert Beav-! ; ers says the picnic at Alien’s Spring 1 last Saturday was a perfect success.;' There was plenty to eat, good mu sic, dancing, some love-making, in ! which he took a full hand, etc. He wants to have one every week. Sheriff Worsham lodged Mack! Russell in jail Monday. Russel! is a young white man and is wanted in Pickens county on a charge of assault and battery. The sheriff of that county has been notified of the arrest and will come after the prisoner. True to appointment the moon gave one of her semi-occasional, total-eclipse performances last Sun day night to a large and mystified j audience. The performance began :at about 10:20 and at 11 thceclipse was total. It was a beautifully i clear night and the eclipse could be seen to perfection. The county is entitled to a free scholarship in the state school of Technology and it will be awarded to the one who before School Com missioner J. D. Taylor stands high est in a competative examination. Applicants should address Mr. Tay lor as the time for admittance to the examination expires the Ist of September. Mr. L. B. Ramsaun, the clever and genial represent;.live of the Consti tution, is in town today in’ the in terest of that paper. He will make I arrangements to have the daily! I Constitution brought on the C., R. •fc C. railroad and thus reach its : readers here on thebaine day it is published. This will be a great ! point in the Constitution’s favor ■ and ought to increase its circulation I here. Master Ed Lovejoy, son of John 11. Lovejoy, of Atlanta, is visiting his relatives, the family of Judge Hawkins, this week. J. M. Barnard has bought a fruit dryer with a capacity of 10 bushels per day and proposes to try what virtue there is in fruit drying. T. IL Berry went off last Sunday on a visit, but he was so quiet about it that no one knows with certainty where. We suspect though it was to Gordon county. We understand that 11. P. Wil liams and T. F. Maxey, of Trion, left Wednesday on an extended trip west. Mr. Maxey goes on business for Mr. I). F. Allgood. Oct Wyatt and Thos. Holbrook left Wednesday on a month’s visit to the Indi.in Territory. W. M. Rich .and James Majors loft the same day for Arkansas. Mrs. Cannon, of Trion Factory, who bn« been visiting her sister, | .Mrs. Rounsaville, returned home! yesterday via. the ('., R. <t C. rail-: road.— Romo Tribune, 21st. Call on J. M. Barnard for nice J apples and pears. He also buys ; apples, peaches, pearsand Irish po-1 tatoes when not bruised. Don’t want less than three bushels at one time. E. W. Sturdivant and E. C.' Adams, Jr., have the contract to i grade the side track at this place. ' I Work was begun last Monday, and j will be completed in about two ■ weeks. D. W. Smith organized recently in this county in one day three sub- Alliances: one at Chattoogaville, one at New Hope and one at South Carolina campground. He will or ganize another at Foster’s Store next Friday. J. Mack Henley, formerly of this place but now of Chattanooga, was in town last week in the interest of a grocery house of that city. His! many friends hero were glad to see l him looking well. Again we take pleasure in calling! the attention of our readers to the bargains to be had in all lines of goods at the store of that clever merchant, J. W. Pitts. Try him; he will treat you right. Miss Rena Berry, after spending a week here, returned to Rome Wed nesday, accompanied by Miss Lena ; Hiles. Miss Lena will return Sat urday and Miss Rena will probably: return Monday and spend some fur- j ther time here, to the delight of her many friends. Col. T. Munroe Lee, a popular commercial tourist, traveling from Baltimore, engaged the attention of Dalton merchants last week. He is so charmed with Dalton and surroundings that he intends to bring his family here to spend the summer.—Dalton Citizen. An ex-member of the Georgia legislature was among the convicts who were ballasting the railroad j last week through this place. He j ■ was a colored man and had helped frame laws fifteen years ago, being! elected from one of the counties in ; the lower part of the State. Last week it was rumored in Rome that some citizen of that place held a tenth of ticket No. 47,843 which drew the $50,000 prize in the Louis ana Lottery, but inquiry failed to find the lucky holder. It now trans- j pires that Jailer J. M. Jenkins held | a tenth of the ticket. He received i $5,000 for it last Monday. There will be a re-union of the j 6th Georgia Cavalry Regiment at I Sardis church, in Floyd county,!, Aug. Btb, 1888, fifteen miles west of! Rome. Fare from Rome for the! round trip, -10 cents. All membersl aie specially urged to attend. Fori further information, address J. A.J Bale or J. A. Glover, Rome, Ga. j Air. W. 11. Williamson, a brothel® of President ■Williamson, of the C.J R. & C. railroad, has been appointed agent of the road at !Ga. The new appointee is a roader of experience, a young intM l of sterling business qualities anil will make a capital officer for thß new and progressive road.— tanooga Times. Richard Abercrombie returM from South Carolina recently his persistent wooing during moons culminated in winningjV . bride. .Mr. Abercrombie ably take up bis permanent I deuce in this county :asit is T -y known that nowhere on can a newly married couple h< better or happier time. D. S. Pharr, formerly county but now of was in town Monday. Mr. Pharr has * traveled over rati at a greater rate of speed any man low living. ! was on a car on the incline ■ which has a grade of one foot i.W i every four and the cable to whiclfl the car was attached broke, precip-1 itatiug the car down the incline for I about two thousand feet at a rate of speed of probably 300 miles an hour. Mr. Pharr now shows few traces of his swift ride, although he ' received injuries which was thought at the time would prove fatal. Job the "p-y V . lip its v.D \\ M Th"-!V cii.'i r; I ■ .< ■ ' :y. .7 :■ .__ A } 'mnW;/ .■b".\c .... I Irnney. a:W-.. ‘ A lit I legs M .Mis. .1. cent ly. ■ i;.-v, i’ _ ' •-< ■ plot l':ict,».’ •V . , in Murri -I iaT’ ' , i.. m -- m rfF. c lb" ■ ""A< I .: I :« '• * Mi- ' l’ A . ’ / ’ 111 : II! 111 ■•.■■-’ ■ ■I 'i I’'fv cN” ■ . .. .. , . . ,u( <, .»• ' . .... I ' . .. 1 " 1 ll " I ” . ;i: ■» ■II 'lie :: * •• •' ‘ > ■ ■ I li i- M : II :.■&■ :e . 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