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TO\V\ A\ll COI'NTV.
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SQUIBS GATHERED HERE
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“Toll us not in mournful num
bers.”
That things are not what they
seem.
The candidate is a fool that
slumbers,
Anti will not reach the goal of his
dream.
lie must lie up and prancing,
With a heart stout and bravo,
Or his opponent will lie dancing
A joyful jig above his grave.
Mrs. Bon. T. Brock is very ill.
The music of the thresher tills
the air.
Money? What is it? Golderned
if we know.
Rev. Mr. (Mazner, of Rising
Fawn, is reported ajs being serious
ly ill.
Mr. and Mrs. \Y r . 11. Killian were
visiting their parents and relatives
hist Sunday.
Joe Morris is up and out again,
after a short and brief struggle
with “cramp colic.”
Miss Pearl Stringer was taken
suddenly ill day before yesterdav,
but is now somewhat improved.
Our county is becoming im
mensely rich in the way of top
buggies. Oh, for some good roads.
Mr. Noah Killian and daughter,
Miss lid, leave next Tuesday on an
extended visit to the State of Tex.
The many friends of Mrs. Will
Case will be glad to learn that she
is convalescent after a protracted
illness of fever.
The weather for the past few
clays has been remarkably cool and
pleasant i gentle breezes blowing
continually night and day.
You <lon'l expect to get up these
Doming:-* and find snow and ic- on
the ground do you? Then quit
grumbiing about the weather.
The position of some politicians
before the people seems to he: “If
you can't give me the ollice I want,
for the Lord's sake give me what's
left.
dust ice court met last Saturday,
and adjourned again for the waiyt
of attendance of parties interested.
This is becoming a very, very stale
chestnut,
Mr. John Ferguson, of Jasper,
Tenm, made us a very pleasant
call this week. John lias embarked
on tlie wide, wide world, seeking
fame and fortune.
M. A. 11. Tatum is enthusiastic
over the Xkws, and pronounces if
the best paper ever published in
the county. If Clements cannot
he nominated, we’re for “Bind.’’
“ruder the spreading c hestnut
free no village smithy stapds/ 1 and
even the children coming from
school, look in at the door and miss
the tlaining forge and the bellow’s
roar.
Our churches are poorly attend
ed ertnsidt ring. the length of time
between the meetings, .Surely our
people feel interested enough to
come together on Sunday,even if it
is only from a social interest.
Miss Willie Nichols opened her
school at the head of Town Creek
lust Monday, and from all reports
it is a prosperous one. Miss Wil
lie is u competent young teacher
and deserves a large patronage.
T; A. Havron, of Jasper, Tcnn.,
was in town iast Saturday and
Sunday. The editor of the Dem
ocrat is mixing a little fat with
his lean, and is looking decidedly
improved. A good, healthy paper
lias a tendency in that direction.
If the barber who cui Bobby
Tatum’s hair is not already in the
carpenter business, all we can say
is, lib is throwing away valuable
time. A more perfect piece of cor
nice work and weatherboaivding we
have never seen, and Bojaby thinks
so too.
It is rumored that Mike Allison
will accompany Prof. Teal on his
journey around the earth. We do
not know how much truth the re
port contains, but if so, our young
ladies can look for some fine par
lor magic entertainments when
Mike conic.; hack
Mrs. A. B. Lee, of Birmingham,
Ala., is visiting her son, John Lee.
John M. Daniel wears a. broad
smile. It’s a boy and a chip of the
old block. Weight not known.
A total eclipse of the moon is to
take place on Die night of the ‘.!2d,
at 11:45 p.m. It will be on for
nearly fwo hours.
Our depot agent had a terrible at
tack of hie-eoughs Wednesday,
which afforded his little electric
“devil great amusement.
John Highfield and Gaines Ta
tum passed through town Wednes
day night with a loud of chickens
and eggs for Chattanooga.
We would suggest to the beaux
that they should be gallant enough
to get up sfime kind of an entertain
ment in honor of the visiting young
ladies that come to our town.
It's uuordinary subject,but none
the less interesting: “Whois going
to knock the smile out of J. A.
Bennett's countenance. Yes, whom?
Give it up. That’s what the lust
candidates done.
If Dr. Lumpkin can pick up as
many votes as many time's as he
can “knock the middlcr in a game
of marbles” he will certainly “get
thar Eli,” without getting on any
body’s “sore toe.”
Prof. E. B. Pennington will re
sign his position at the Company
store the Ist of the month, and
leave for Kentucky. This is to
be regreted, and his removal from
our county will be a great loss.
Another negro man killed at the
Fawn last week, and a SSO reward
ottered for the murderer. So long
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as the darkies confine their murder
ous assaults to their own color,
there will be no serious kicking
among some of our populace.
Miss Armstrung, of Chat tunnogu,
spent iast Tuesday in Trenton, and
in her own words, “Trenton is the
most delightful place to spend the
summer she has seen. The cool
breezes, fine water and mountain
scenery are almost unexcelled.”
Misses Annie Rad v,of Nashville,
Tcnn., Mima Hassier, of Chatta
nooga, and Messrs. Bob Peoples,
and Dr. J. R. Brock made a very
pleasant riding party hist Saturday .
The visiting ladies were the guests
of U. L. Taylor.
ll Johnny Jacowav is not seen
for the next three days, he may be
found ai home studying up the po
litical situation. Johnny offered
to bet a gentleman that Cleveland
and Harrison would be the next
supreme rulers, which provoked the
crowd to mirth. Johnny failing to
take in the situation, some one
quietly informed him Harrison
was the Republican nominee.
Johnny immediately took “back
water’’ by saving, he intended to
say Cleveland and Morton. This
called forth such laughter, Johnny
left for home a little nonplused.
Quite a large crowd assembled at
the church at the furnace last Sat
urday night to watch.the old week
out and the new in with Prof.
Teal. To relieve the monotony
and keep the people awake, the
Professor and his two daughters{ ?)
gave an entertainment. The nrof
essor performing some sleight of
hand tricks, and the young ladies
singing some selections in rare
tunes. Duke Brock, Bob Smith
and Mike Allison say it, was the
best performance of tin 1 kind they
have ever seen.
Trenton is the place for holding
the Methodist Conference next
year. Trenton at present is con
siderable behind in her finances.
The taking up of subscriptions has
become monotonous and laborious,
and often the results are anything,
hut flattering. Trenton is blessed
in many wavs, especially in wide
awake, energetic young people, who
arc gifted with talent and genius.
Now why not give them an oppor
tunity and encourage .them in put
ting their talents to a good use. An
ice-cream and musical festival,
once a month, would soon wipe out
the debt against the church people
of the town, and would be a means
of creating a greater etl'ort on the
part of the in young developing
their musical talents, as well as
elocutionary accomplishments.
lit Mil! II SHOTS
OR BITS OF NOTHING CON
TAINING SOM ETIIING.
On tin* subject of dross, we are
aware much has been said and
written to little purpose. The laws
of fashion are becoming so prepos
terous, her dominion so arbitrary,
that reason and philosophy can
have little hope of gaining ground
in her empire. In whatever style,
girls, you hide your identity dur
ing winter time, for heaven’s sake,
avoid so many frills, ribbons, ruf
tlles, etc., etc., and confine Your
selves to plainoss and simplicity
during the hot season.
The town has tinged the country.
The rural lass with virgin modesty
and grace, artless manners, and
mat attire is seen no more. The
character is lost. In place of the
dairy-bonnet, her head is adorned
with lappets pinned aloft and rib
bons streaming gay; her elbows
ruffled and magnified beyond all
human size, and her totfeiing form
ill propped on French heels. Too
proud for ordinary work, and sale
of eggs, her train and umbrella
are her only care now. The fair
maid of old romance is but a dream.
It is a notieablc fact said a mer
chant, tliaf we sell a yard or two of
goods less in the summer time to
make.a dress, to the same voting
lady we sold to in the winter time.
Wo took pity on his innooonse and
quietly informed him that i! was
also not uvahie with pleasure,!o the
church going people, that the bus
tle took a decided tumble at this
season of the year.
What a pity anatomy is not made
a requisite part of female educa
tion. An acquaintance with the
complicated structure and tin mys
terious mechanism of this clay,
would prevent so thoughtlessly
bringing destructive agents to hear
on its frailty through the appalling
modes of fashion.
The. ancient aud sublime stpicks
were very tyroos in ejrunparion. with
many of the girls to-day. In de
gree of suffering, in perfection of
concealment, and in extent of en
durance, they must yield the palm.
The most illustrious masters, fruit
ful as they were in tests to try fno
body, never invented, imagined, or
would have been able to sustain the
torture of the mania, for fight lin
ing which our girls steadily inflict
and bear without repining. They
will not admit they are suffering
the slightest inconvenience though-,
she has fairly won laurels to which
no stoick dare aspire. The adhe
sion of parts, and the derangement
of structure, on account of tighf
lacing, is truly frightful.
Weheard a young man remark
on the loafer’s corner yesterday,
that whenever you see a young
man loud and talkative, full of in
sipid life and laughter, you may
venture to pronounce him a female
favorite. We hope nothing in the.
deportment of the young ladies
will ever authorize a conclusion
like this.
“You talk and write a good deal
about the girls,” said a young lady
to us a few evenings since; “man
why dont you write about the men.
We never really know the men we
meet in society. Why, when the
average young man dons his “visi
ting clothes” he discards his iden
itv. They try to act as much like
a sphinix and talk like a sugar
mill as possible. I tell you, we
dont know when to believe the men
we hear talking. Tally may do as
a first nights feast, but won’t go far
on a life’s journey. We want to
know to whom we. are talking, and
certainly we ought to know whom
we marry. Don’t you think so?”
Yes we think so, and the plea of
our friend is timely. But are not
the girls to blame for this condi
tion of things? We dont assert
this but simply a k the question.
Haven’t the girls the power to cure
this manifest error. “How?’’
Well, by simply stopping the boys
when they open their taffy box.
“God bless the girl that helps
mother” is a sentence that is bchi;.
copied extensively by the >•
changes. We think they are n
-< nsitivc ami tender lit w, though,
to smolher anything but a young
man’s hopes of ambition.
! Trenton, with- so many young
i teachers, bv all means sbodhl have
| a literary society. We are ah
! doubtless ready to pronounce ;
j wen-discipline , lit- rarv taste, a*
: worth the labor if acquisition.
; Barents should i c os oil the fet
ters of restraint that circumscribe
them, aud (vast* to display their
lack ol cultivation by condemning
such things as “courting ma
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A STARTLING SENSATION
. Results in Rather a Comical Ter
minal ion.
| Last Monday evening, a little
| il year old son of Mr. DahbV, in
|<the lower end of the eountv, left
'be house to hoe in the cornfield,
I but failed to put in bis appearance
at supper, which at once started the
alarm of “lost boy, - ’ and the entire
neighborhood soon became engaged
in the search.
The mountains, fields andcreC
"were searched diligently from Mon
j day night fill Wednesday evening,
i when the young miscreant was dis
covered registered at the hotel at
- Rising Fawn,and us free from care
i as tire most unconcerned. '
He was carried to his home the
: evening, where a crowd of nearly .
! hundred people had gathered to
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i greet the return of the prodigal.
Crops are looking fine.
A heavy rain fell here yesterday.
John P Jacoway, Esq., lias re
turned after an extended business
trip.
The Dade Normal Institute will
open Monday, August BtR, in charge
of Professors J. M. and H. E. Wat
son.
(!. A. R. Piible. of Smith Ga., is
seriously ill with congestive fever.
Dr. Lumpkin left to-day to wait
Upon him.
Philip Cassidy, a white convict,
was killed in the Cole City mines
by the falling of slate. Aninquesl
was held by Coroner Kiser. The
verdict rendereddkas that the de-.
censed ?ame to his death through
his own carelessness.
A petition is being circulated all
along the lino of the A. G. S. R. R.
and signed by the people, praying
the carrying of the mail on the fast
trains. This will be a great im
provement on the present system,
and it is to be hoped that the move
will be a success.
In expressing our'contempt for
the thing called a man, who from
pure eussednes and stinginess re
fuses to subscribe for his county
paper, but reads it by stealth and
: theft, we are likely to overflow with
| vituperation: yet we feel that we
| owe no opology to an intelligent
! public capable of appreciating, the
I extent of the wrong and our indig
nation resulting from the act.
Master Sydney Jacoway, son of
J. P. Jacoway, received from the
Castle Hill Dairy Farm, as a birth
day gift day before yesterday, a tine
Jersey calf. The sire.apd dam cf
this calf are imported .direct from
the island of Jersey, and was reg
i istered in the American Jersey
! Cattle Club, of New York, April
28th, when she was only eight days
| old. •
Thecalfisa beautiful one in
form and color, and far surpasses
any thing ever seen in this county.
I Little Howell Tittle, son of Thos
| Tittle, met with a serious and pain
ful accident one day this week.
He and his little brother were play
ing in the yard with a hatchet, and
j while chopping on a stump, by
i some means or other, Howell placed
his hand on the stump and his
; brother struck it a hard blow nearly
amputating three fingers of the
right hand. Drs. Brock and Ketch
erside finished the job with surgi
cal skill, and the little fellow is
getting along nicely.
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