Newspaper Page Text
HARRISBURG, GA.
As I see nothing in your paper
from this place I will try to give
you a few items.
Farmers are badly behind with
their work because of the great a
mount of rain.
Our townsman, Mr. J. C. Kelley,
left on March 30th, for his new
home in Tennessee. Ho made
many friends during his stay a
mong us.
Mr. A M. Agnew, of Centre Post,
will put up a stock of goods t this
place soon.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Boyles, of
Lookout mountain, who have been
sick so long, are improving, I am
glad to say.
Mrs. T. Crowder is also improv
ing slowly.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jay
April Ist, a fine girl.
The tan bark peelers, as well as
farmers, would like to see some
sunshine. Sager.
TRION NEWS.
A little child of Mr. and Mrs. A.
F. Williams died on the night of
March 31st, the inter ment occuring
next day. The bereaved father and
mother have the sympathy of a
largo circle of friends in their sad
bereavement.
Mr. Howard Williams, who was
severely burned few days ago is
improving.
Mrs. T. M. Rash is on the sick
list this week.
The many friends of Miss Flor
ence Fitts will be glad to know
that her health is much improv
ed.
The heaviest rain of the season
feel here Sunday, causing a con
siderable rise in the river.
Married last Sunday night Mr.
Henry Braden and Miss Sallie
Clark, Esquire N. 11. Coker officia
ting.
Clifton, little son of Mr. and
Mrs.G. D. Bramlette, is quite sick
with fever.
The school at this place is an a
flourishing condition under the
management of Prof. Shropshire
and his able assistants.
Owing to the rain there was no
preaching at the Methodist church
here last Sunday. W. C. R.
TALIAFERRO, GA,
As 1 have seen nothing in your
paper from this place lately I will
give you a few items.
The farmers are behind with
their work on account of so much
rain.
Rev. M. L. Troutman filled his
regular appointment at the camp
ground last fourth Sunday.
The preaching day at Poplar
springs has been changed from the
first to the third Sunday in each
month.
Prof. J. C. Perry’s school closed
at the camp ground on the 26th.
Mr. Perry is a fine teacher, and
was well pleased with his school.
Mrs. Frank White, who has been
sick for some time died last Thurs
day night. She was buried at the
camp ground Saturday, the funeral
service being conducted by Rev J.
11. Glazner, in a very impressive
manner.
Messrs George Russell and Don
ald Herndon visited the latter's
parents at Silver Hill the fourth
Sunday-
Mr. W. T. Herndon, of Raccoon,
visited his family at this place
Sunday.
Miss Annie Stephenson visited
Miss Nena Stephenson Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr. Koke Gayler, of Selma, Ala.,
is visiting friends in the commu
nity.
Mrs. A. A. Strange is very sick
we are sorry to say.
Some of our young people at
tended the singing at Silver Hill
Sunday evening.
Mr. J. D. Kendrick, of Silver
Hill, was in our town Sunday eve- |
ning.
Success to the News.
Mountain Boy.
—
“Good-bye, World, Hello, Hades.’’
was the heading used by a contem
porary in the published account of
the Jacksou-Wallwg excutioii.
LYERLY GA.,
Mrs. A. McLeod has been very
unwell for some days but is better
at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jones is
spending some time with Airs
Starling.
Miss Grace Schwab is visiting
Mrs. B. J. Starling.
Prof. Calloway and son, Frank,
visited home folks at Gordon
springs Saturday and Sunday
Frank will remain at home until
the next session.
Our school is in a most flourish
ing condition and we hope to see
it continue to grow, and improve.
Postmaster John M. Rose in
forms me that Lyerly is now a
money order office. lie also in
forms me that he is in the bicycle
business.
Mr. A S. Williams went to Chat
tanooga last week on business.
Mr. E. L. Polio'k, father of j.
L. and J. I. Pollock, is moving
from Rome to this place where he
will reside in future.
Rev, Mr. Troutman preached to
the colored people here Sunday
night.
Little Annie Ruth Foster accom
panied Miss Maggie Powell home
Monday evening.
There was a very heavy and dan
gerous looking cloud passed over
here Monday morning, but no
damage was done, so far as heard
from. M.
Crete And The Greeks.
The Greek longing for the pos
session of Crete is no ordinary de
sire for national aggrandizement.
Crete was formerly a part of
Greece, and the great majority of
its people are still Greek in lan
guage, religion and sympathy.
About two centuries ago Crete,
which had been subject to Venice
for four hundred years, was over
run by the Turks, and became a
part of the Ottoman Empire.
Fifty years later Greece also was
conquered by Turkey.
When, in 1821, the war of inde
pendence broke out in Greece,
which led to the constitution of
Greece as a kingdom a few years
later, Crete joined immediately in
the struggle. The hardy Cretan
mountainers drove the Moslems
into the fortified towns, and would
probably have obtained complete
possession of the island if Egypt
had not sent an army to aid the
Turks.
When the war ended with the
realization of the Greek dreams of
freedom, the allied powers of Eu
rope sanctioned an arrangement by
which Crete was handed over to
Mehemet Ali, Viceroy of Egypt,
in return for his services to the
Turks. In 1840 this arrangement
was terminated, and Crete passed
again directly under Turkish rule.
During the past fifty years there
have been repeated revolts in Crete,
the most serious of which—that
which broke out in 1866—was fol
lowed by important concession
from the Porte, which, however,
were but imperfectly observed.
Out of about three hundred
thousand people on the island, not
more than a quarter are Moham
medans, and these are not Turks,
but, with few exceptions, native
Cretans, decendants of those who,
when the island became Turkish,
changed their religion in order to
improve their condition. The rest
of the population is Greek in re
ligion as well as in language and
sympathies.
The president is a methodist,
but there are three Presbyterians,
one Congregationalist, one Inde
pendent, one Unitarian, and one
Catholic in his cabinet.
The Savannah News thinks, that
the sending of an ex-Confederate
soldier to the United States Senate
from Kansas is convincing evidence
that the bloody shirt era is over.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
Ihe Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter
Chapped Hands, Chilbins, Corns
and all Skin Eruptions, and posi
tively cures Piles or no pay re
quired It is guaranteed to* give
perfect satisfaction, or money re
funded. Price 25cents pet box.
for sale by H. H. Arrington.
MENLO DOTS.
Mr. Editor—This lovely sun
shiny Monday morning finds us
well, so far as we know. But if we
get out of doors we are in mud
from shoe mouth to one half leg
deep. It rained out Sunday school
and preaching yesterday, but there
was a good congregation to hear
Rev. Starkey preach at night.
Au elderly lady by the name of
Posey died at what is known as the
Dorsey place last Friday night and
was interred at the Alpine cemete
ry Saturday evening.
I saw Mr. James Lawrence driv
ing his team along the road this
morning and asking him what he
was going to do he replied that he
was going to haul some stock, and
that if he could not keep them on
top of the ground be would haul
them under the mud.
The farmers are talking of hir
ing out, for it is gloomy looking
indeed. This morning a terrible
looking cloud is coming up,- the
worst I have seen in a long time
Mr. John Laster gave a description
of something that I have never
seen in the last 70 years, and that
was a spinning wheel rolling along
on the ground with its legs turned
up toward the clouds. He said it
was the awfullest sight he ever
saw. The fact is he was scared for
a few minutes until hedidn’tknow
what he was doing. A cloud and
rain and a whirlwind and hail
came down on his house last week,
and blew the wheel out of the por
tico, aud the bee gums, feathers
and many other things were going
the same way. Nodnet.
RACCOON MILLS.
Quite a heavy rain fell here last
Sunday, and the creek was higher
than it has been this winter. It
has almost destroyed the mill
dam.
Mr. Joel Jones is very sick with
pneumonia, but we hope he may
soon improve.
Mr. E. Montgomery is also sick
with pneumonia.
Miss Hermon Boyle spent a few
days of the past week with friends
and relatives at Trion. She will
make Trion her home for awhile.
Will Booker spent last Sunday
with his best girl.
Mrs. Lynn Huie, who has been
visiting her parents, returned home
last week.
The addition to the cotton mill
at this place was finished last week,
and is now ready for the machine
ry to be placed in position.
Death has again visited our
town, and claimed as its victim
the pure spirit of Miss Jodie Yar
brough. She was eighteen years
old; she had been in bad health
for nearly a year, but w r as confined
to her room only a short time be
fore her death. She died Sunday,
and was buried Monday, in the
new cemetary here. Her death is
the third in the family of Mr. Yar
brough this year, and the bereaved
family have the sympathy of a
host of friends. Rev. Mr. Pope
preached the funeral sermon Mon
day afternoon. It is with pain we
give up our loved ones; weep not
for your daughter, for Jesus ac
companied her across the dark riv
er, and Heavens gate opened wide
to receive her.
In the bright celestial city
Where sad parting will never come
Are the darling children waiting
To welcome their loved ones home
Birdie.
The McDuffey Enterprise con
veys this cheerful information:
“Mr. Tip Usry, who killed his
brothther-in-law, Cur Usry, in
Glasscock county last Sunday, was
in town Monday. He says the
killing was accidental.” In the ab
sence of the details we presume
that Mr. Tip was showing his gun
to an admiring crowd in church,
and it went off and killed Cur.
The usual gloom envelops the en
tire community.—Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal.
The Augusta Evening Herald is '
of the opinion that vice, immorali
ty and dishonesty can only exist in
a community because people tole
rate such things in their midst. A i
vigorous and awakened public opin
ion will do more for the morals of'
a community than a new set of:
laws and a squad of policemen. 1
TELOGA, GA.
The past few days have been
raining, greatly retarding farm
work, consequently farmers are
very despondent.
Wheat in this section is looking
well.
Early Thacker, of near Menlo,
visited friends near here Saturday
and Sunday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jay,
near Harrisburg, on the first of
April, a fin egirl.
Why yes, laws-a-massey, Mr. X.
Y. Z. The Valley Girl has bought
a cultivator for (her) his new boy
to plow with; and he is laughing
how he is going to plow with it when,
he gets large like laws a massay
and his muscles get strong like his
papa’s; but you was certainly float
ing in the wind when you intepret
ed laws a massay. Wonder if that
young man has still got his heart,
in his mouth?
Owing to the rain there was no
congregational meeting at Beer
sheba, or preaching at New Hope
Sunday. Valley Girl.
R. F. Roberson, near Trion, is still
still selling 8 lbs good green coffee for
SI.OO No A, O. C. points for 25c
My house is biim full of new goods
and at prices that will astonish you.
Trion, Ga., R. F. Roberson.
Mr. S. J. Edmondson, the clever
merchant of Guild, was in town yester
day, and helped the editor a dollars
worth. Many thanks.
I have the Hinton farm rented for
the year 1897, and all tresspassing,
either fishing, hunting or otherwise, is
hereby prohibited under penalty of the
law. Lorenzo Dalton.
An exceedingly angry looking cloud
came up very suddenly to the west of
town last Monday morning, and for a
few minutes there were numbers of
people hurrying to and fro, seeking
shelter from what looked like a cyclone.
The clouds were of a blue black, and
twisted and whirled at a great rate.
It came up rapidly, with a wild rush,
and then—in a very few minutes all
was over, and the sun was shinning a
gain.
Rev. W. C. Luther, of Texas, who
is district secretary of the American
Baptist Publication society, has been
transferred from Texas to Atlanta, and
is already in that city to take charge of
the work in his new field. Rev. Mr.
Luther is an old Georgian, having
formly lived at Cartersville, aud also
at one time having chaage of a
church in this county. He is quite
well known, and is very popular as a
minister and church worker.
R. D. Black, a drummer for Curd &
Sinton, a harness and saddlery firm of
Louisville, Ky., was discharged by a
telegram from bis firm last Saturday,
at the same time ordering Marshall
Godwin to take charge of his sample
cases. Mr. Black claims that the firm
is due him something and refuses to
release the samples without a fight.
Accordingly he swore out an attach
ment last Monday, and samples and
cases are now in the hands of the
court, and the case will be tried at the
next regular term of justice court.
Letters or Dismission.
GEORGIA, Chattooga county.
To all whom it may concern C. C.
Cleghorn, executor of James Scott, de
creased, and adrnistrator of J. O. Scott
and W. L. Groves, deceased, all of said
county, represents to this court in his
petition duly filled that he has fully
discharged his duties as said executor
and administra tor of the above named
persons estate. This is to cite all per
sons concerned, heirs and creditors, to
show cause if any they can why said C.
C, Cleghorn, executor aud administra
tor as aforesaid should not be discharg
ed from his executorship and adminis
tratorship, and receive letters of dismis
sion on the first Monday in July next.
Witness my hand this April 3,1897.
John M?ttox, Ordinary.
Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA. Chattooga county.
To all whom it may concern. W. C.
Henley, executor of the will of Harford
Henley deceased has applied to the un
dersigned for leave to sell the lands be.,
longing to estate of said decreased.
Thi- is to notify all persons concerned
that said application will be passed up
on at my office in Summerville, said
county, on the first Monday in May
next. Witness my hand, this April 5
1897.
JOHN MATTOX, Ordinary.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS.
GEORGIA, Chattooga county.
All persons having demands against
the estate of of Mrs, J. C. Vamplet, late
of said county, deceased are hereby no"
tofied to render in their demands to the
undersigned according to law, and all
persons indebted to make immediate
payment. This \pril 5,1897.
T. M. VAMPEtT, Adiur.
FABULOUS SNAKE OF CHINA.
Marco Polo's Report Concerning the Prov
ince of Ytianan.
Noah Brooks quotes the following
from the great Venetian traveler in
his series t St. Nicholas papers,
“ The Tit a /Story of Marco Polo:” In
this country gold dust is found in
great quantities—th;-, tis to say, in
the rivers and lakes, while in the
mountains gold is al.o found in
pieces of larger size. Gold is indeed
so abundant that they give one sag
gio of gold for only six of the same
weight in silver. And for small
change they use the porcelain shells,
as I mentioned before These are
not found in the country, however,
but are brought from India.
In this province arc found snakes
and great serpents of such vast size
as to strike fear into those who see
them and so hideous that the very
account of them must excite the
wonder of those who hear it. I will
tell you how long and big they are.
You may be assured that some of
them are ten paces in length, some
are more and some less. And in
bulk they are equal to a great cask,
for the bigger ones are about ten
palms in girth. The head is very
big. The mouth is large enough to
swallow a man whole and is gar
nished with great pointed teeth.
And in short they are so fierce look
ing and so hideously ugly that ev
ery man and beast must stand in
fear and trembling of them. There
are also smaller ones, such as of
eight paces long and of five and of
one pace only.
The way in which they are caught
is this: You must know that by day
they live underground because of
the great heat, and in the night they
go out to feed and devour every
animal they can catch. They go al
so to drink at the rivers and lakes
and springs. And their weight is so
great that when they travel in
search of food or drink, as they do
by night, the tail makes a great fur
row in the soil, as if a full tun of
liquor had been dragged along.
Now, the huntsmen who go after
them take them by a certain gin
(trap) which they set in the track
over which the serpent has passed,
knowing that the beast will come
back the same way. They plant a
stake deep in the ground and fix on
the head of this a sharp blade of
steel made like a razor or a lance
point, and then they cover the
whole with sand so that the serpent
cannot see it. Indeed, the huntsman
plants several such stakes and
blades on the track. On coming to
the spot the beast strikes against
the iron blade with such force that
it enters his breast and rives (cuts)
him so that he dies on the spot, and
the crows on seeing the brute dead
begin to caw, and then the hunts
men know that the serpent is dead
and come in search of him.
This, then, is the way these beasts
are taken. Those who take them
proceed to extract the gall from the
inside, and this sells at a great
price, for you must know it furnish
es the material for a most precious
medicine. Thus, if a person is bib
ten by a mad dog and they give
him but a small pennyweight of
this medicine to drink he is cured
in a moment. Again, if one has any
disease of the skin and applies a
small quantity of this gall he shall
speedily be cured. So you see why
it sells at such a high price.
They also sell the flesh of this ser
pent, for it is excellent eating, and
the people are very fond of it. And
when these serpents are very hun
gry sometimes they will seek out
the lairs of lions or bears or other
large wild beasts and devour their
cubs without the sire and dam be
ing able to prevent it. Indeed, if
they catch the big ones themselves,
they devour them too. They can
make no resistance.
New York’s Composite Personality.
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
contributes to The Century a paper
entitled‘‘Places In New York, ” in
which she gives a picture of inter
esting phases of life in the new
world metropolis. Mrs. Van Rens
selaer says : More than 76 per cent
of those who people New York to
day were born of foreign mothers,
more than 40 per cent were born on
foreign soil themselves, and many
of these aliens, brought from many
different lands, continue here to
live in clusters with their own kin
after their own kind. Yet, while
each of these clusters and each of
their wandering offshoots modifies
the new world metropolis, all of
them together do not destroy its
cohesion. They simply intensify its
curious composite sort of personal
ity. They make it multifariously di
verse, but they leave it an entity.
They touch every portion of it with
pungent exotic flavors, but as fla
voring an American whole. They
play their several parts in a civic
life that is cosmoramic beyond the
belief of those who have not studied
it well, but they do not turn New
York into a cosmopolitan town, for
this means a town which, over
whelmed by its stiangers, has lost
or has never possessed a character
of its www
DANCING TURTLES
The Curiotia Training: to Which They Are
Subjected In the Far Fast.
The spectacle of an old, boarded
man, with lore’, tangled locks, dress
ed in a fantastic costume, attracted
the attention of passersby one day
in one of the large seaports of Ja
pan. Some said ho was an Aino,
pointing to his long hair and beard,
and that he was a bear worshiper
from Nagasaki.
The old man stood on the deck of
a houseboat quite as disreputable as
he himself appeared and gave an
exhibition that was in every respect
remarkable. He held an old brass
drum, upon which he beat with sev
eral sticks, keeping time with his
foot, and in obedience to this strange
summons a number of common high
back river tortoises of various sizes
crawled out of a box, and, forming
themselves in line, began to march,
one after the other, to the slow, dis*
cordant music. Around they went
in a circle, the big ones ahead, the
smaller ones following on behind,
and at the word of command tho
larger ones took their places bo
| tween two boxes aud formed a liv
[ i u g tortoise bridge, over which tho
small ones passed from box to box,
the others then following suit,
whereupon all the tortoises arranged
themselves in groups, like plates
about a table.
The Japanese have another tor
toise, which they train to perform
simple tricks in the water. It is a
little creature, about three or four
inches long, that from a life of in
activity has become covered with a
long growth of green pond weed,
which streams behind like hair as it
swims along.
These people are also famous for
their strange fishes of tho carp fam
ily- Some are short and chubby,
with eyes that protrude so far from
the head that they look like tele
scopes or tho stalked eyes of some
crabs, with which the little crea
tures can see in every direction.
Others have a broad lacelike tail,
that hangs gracefully like a mass
of lace and appears to be divided in
to three parts. Others have a per
fect black cross marked upon the
back, which, against the deep red,
which is the prevailing color, pre
sents a magnificent appearance.
Others are called the fish of tho
white cross, the latter being white
against red.
These beautiful creatures are
trained to perform a variety of
tricks. They rise at tho sound of a
bell, ring a bell themselves, follow
one another in a row at the signal,
and theii in many ways show their
remarkable intelligence.
The Japanese also import the
famous fighting fishes from India.,
which they keep in an aquarium
and match in contests, which are, it
must be said, decided without blood
shed, though the little creatures
show no little ferocity.
The tortoise and crane are both
sacred animals in Japan, and the
former is often seen with the stork
walking about tho villages, paying
no attention to the people, and as
safe as is the sacred ox in India.—
New York Sun.
Thoreau at Cape Cod.
In Cape Cod, Thoreau gave his
natural drollery full play—an al
most antinomian liberty, to take a
word out of those ecclesiastical his
tories with tho reading of which
under his umbrella ho so patiently
enlivened his sandy march from Or
leans to Provincetown. ‘‘As I sat on
a hill one sultry Sunday afternoon, ”
he says, ‘‘the meeting house win
dows being open, my meditations
were interrupted by the noise of a
preacher who shouted like a boat
swain profaning tho quiet atmos
phere, and who, I fancied, must
have taken off his coat. Few things
could have been more disgusting or
disheartening. I wished the tithing
man would stop him.” Charles
Lamb himself could not have bet
tered the delicious, biting absurdity
of that final touch. It was not this
Boanergian minister, but a man of
an earlier generation, of whom wo
are told that he wrote a ‘‘Body of
Divinity, ’ ’ a book ‘ ‘ frequently sneer
ed at, particularly by those who
have read it. ” The whole Cape, past
and present, was looked at half quiz
zically by its inland visitor. The
very houses ‘‘seemed, like mariners
ashore, to have sat right down to
enjoy the firmness of the land, with
out studying their postures or ha
biliments”—a description not to be
fully appreciated except by those
who have seen a Cape Cod village,
with its buildings dropped here and
there at haphazard upon the sand.
—Atlantic Monthly.
Different.
Little Pierre, a French boy, went
out to walk with his father in tho
road and was badly frightened by a
drove of cattle.
‘‘Why should you be afrail,
Pierre?” his father asked. “Why,
you eat such creatures as that at
dinner, you know.”
‘‘Yes, papa,” said Pierre, “but.
these aren’t well enough done. ”---
London Fun.
Zanzibar, in southeast Africa,
7,672 miles from Washington.