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She Utot Cottntg llkdilg %h\UB VOL. 6 TOWN AND COUNTY. SQUIBS GATHERED HERE AND THERE. The News of the Week Graphically' Portrayed—The New Schedule— Things of Interest to the People of Trentou audDadeCounty The sick are doing well. Dade county needs better roads, Trenton needs better side walks. See new Sheriff sales in this is sue. That wood has not been brought in yet. The game law went into effect April 1, A building boom is preparing to strike Trenton. The county Alliance met here yesterday. The tax receiver will soon com mence his rounds. Advertise merchants of Dade in your county paper. S. H. Thurman went to Chat tanooga Wednesday. The spring poets are all dead and a good thing for them. The accommodation train was certainly pat on Monday, There is absolutely nothing stiring about this place to write about. All back subscription to this pa per is due the present proprietor. Ylarch this year came in like a lamb and went out the same way. Rising Fawn should be laid off in blocks so the town will look like something. Hustle -around and get that dol lar you owe this here establish ment. Ramey Nugent of Coffee countv. will plant 100 acres of cotton this year. * It is said that a boom has struck Smith, Ga., It just keeps coming this way. What’s the matter Aunt Pollie? We would like to have a letter from you. The mountains are looking beau tiful in their spring garb, of dif ferent colors. Have you paid for the pape you are reading? Is it youis or your neighbors? G, W, M. Tatum, ’Tisirg Fawn, keeos bran and hay. Aso best brand of guano for sale, Two i f the prisoners recently sentenced to the chaingang were .carried to Cole City this week. We have develish poor accom modation on the A. G' S. railroad since the new schedule went into cxfect. An effort should be made to let the people know that Treaton is the place to summer. Will it be done? No. There ia a fine prospect for a large peach crop in this section but it is very likely the April cold snap •will kill it out. Mrs. Neppie Doyle, who has been visiting relatives and friends in this section, returned t> her home in Alabama Wednesday. The people of Dade county are well pleased with G. W. M. Tatum’s fine horse. As usual thev recog nize his judgment on a horse. By cooperation Trenton can be made a town of 2,000 or 3,000 in habitants,. A city of 40,000 can’t be built every two or three miles. Mrs. Moore, of Chattanooga, was in town Tuesday. She is prepar ing to build on the Let she recently purchased near Dr. Ketcberside’s. We expect to tramp on some ouoß toes pretty’ soon to see if something cannot be done to stir our citizens up and thereby benefit the town at large. Five years ago when The Times was moved from Rising Pawn to this place, Trenton only had two stores, now she has five and sev eral new residences have been built, Don’t be selfish, But build up the town And have something for your children. Some one can pay their subscrip tion with a load of wood. The Farmers’ Alliance adopted B. P. Major’s store as the place they would trade at, in the future, last night. Can’t the people of Dade Coun ty get up a county fair? What says you 6. A- R> Bible and M. A . B. Tatum? Lost —One pearl cuff button, in shape of a horse’s head with gold bridle. Finder will confera favor by returning it to this office, There is no use in talking about what Fort Payne has. That town is booming and the people of Tren ton are too rotten lazy to make an ef fort to push thejr town to the front. Any town will “boom” when the people pull together whether it has the resources or not. This Jas. Wool bright and Jurd Haney went to the mountain in order to bring a tur key back with them. And when they started, thay said that they was going to kill a gobler, and sure enough th«ydid. It was a “goblor” and it weighed 14 pounds. Is there not men in Trenton who possess enough energy to make an effort to improve the town? There is no use in one or two trying to do it when the rest pulls back Dr. Lumpkin J. P. Jacowoy W. U. Jacoway and Brad Tatum get to work and do something for your town and yourselves, and maybe the others will follow. A leader is all that is needed. We own no property in Trenton nor Dade count}’, and therefore don’t feel able to “boom'’ the town and county at our own exponce. We tried that once for a town in this State and lost in the opera tion. We are not disposed to be selfish at all and if the people will show any appreciation and help bare the burthen we will write up the town and county and issue large editions every week. Wildwood Items . Wildwood, Ga., April 4. —Not having seen any correspondence from this point and thinking a few items might be of interest to your many readers I will endeavor to keep them posted as to any news that may happen in our burg. Dr. Doakins is on the sick list. The Shamlinßrothers are having n fine straight fence put around their entire farm. Our new depot is a “dandy.” Better, we think, than any in Dade county. The store room of the building still remains vacant. Messrs. Ford & Lea have opened a first-class store at this point. It is their intention tojduplicate Chatta nooga prices l . The paint mill is doing a good business under the management of Mr. Chumley. The grist mill is also humming. Mr. Kay, of North Carolina, having taken charge of it. He is a first class miller and comes among us highly recommended. Bud Holmes met with an acci cident which came near proving very serious, He and Hugh Lea were out gunning when Lea opened fire on a hare but missed the hare and the shot took effect in Holmes’ knee; causing a very painful but not dangerous wound. Mr. Cravens is gardening on the wholesale plan, as is also Mr. Lea. Garden truck will be or ought to be very eheap in this locality. I f some of the boys who are in the habit of going to churca and stay ing out side the building maicing all kinds of noise, are not a little careful they may get themselves in to trouble. Well boys if you do not want your names in the paper you carry yourselves up in pretty good shape as they are sure to get there if do not. TRENTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL, 5, 1889. SHALL WE HAVE THEM? BETTER PUBLIC ROADS FOR DADE COUNTY. Ordinary Bennett Invest{gating the Cost of Establishing a County Chain Gang—Gons to Exam ine Into the Matter, Etc. Oidinarv J. A. Bennett is after better roads which are needed. He left Wednesday for Rome, Ga., to get an estimate cost of what it will take to keep a county chaingang up, and if it does not cost too much will see what kind of a arrangements can be made. His ideas are for Dade, Walker and Catoosa to join together and each county keep the prisoners at the county chaingang tw r o years. It is the idea of the Ordinary for the county to take it in rotation. Say commencing with Dade, then let them get to Walker and tnen to Catoosa and back again. Each county to have it’s own stockade, This is a feasible plan and one we think will meet with popular approval. Dade county certainly needs as they are al most impassible in the winter months. The roads in four or five years could be putin first class condi tion. ONE MAIL A DAY. The A. G. S. Plays The Mischief With the mall service. ■ Since the change in the schedule on the Alabama Great Southern railroad Trenton is left in the soup: In other words we only have one mail a day but have three passen ger trains daily, each way. The train that the north hound THWIt should come on now gets hero at 1:02 a. m. and does not stop except when flagged for someone to get on, consequent ly the postmaster can not exchange mail. As the mail now is it takes a let ter 24 h ours to come from Rising Fawn to this place-a distance of eight miles. The superintendent of the railway mail service should look into this matter at once and compel this roaa, if he can, to run a daily mail each way. Not long since a petition was sent in for a double mail service, and instead of getting that the stations were cut off one mail. The Alabama Great Southern road seems to not care for the ac commodation of the people on it’s line. The owners live in England and the officers in Ohio. If the works start up again at Morrison’s there is a good prospect of the Nashville, Chattanoga and bt. Louis railroad building to that point, and by the right kind of in ducements it could be induced to paralell the Alabama Great South ern. A move should be made to bring the road to time and that at once. Off At Ln«t. Married su the residence of the brides father at No. 324 West Mar ket st, in Rising Fawn on the 3rd inst Miss Mamie White to* Mr. C. C. Hale. Rev. J. H, Harwell offi ciating. The bride is one of Ris ing Fawn’s most charming belies while the groom is a very popular young merchant of the same place. May there be no “Hale” storms to mar their hapiness, as they sail down life? sea together, and may the “White” caps of trouble be entirely avoided. Gone To The Chain Gann. Sheriff Byrd carried three par ties to the Fiovea county chain gang Wednesday. They were Will Metcalf, white; George Anderson, col; Pat Ryon, white. They go for twelve months for brsaking into a A. G. S. box car. . ia i ——» ÜBIES Nending a tonic, or children that want building up. should take BFOWN’S IKON HITTERS. It is i.leamnt to take, cures Malaria, Indiges i Uou. mid liilloujiitsti. Ali dealers keep It. / Normal Dots, April fool. Prof John Watson nas the “yal ler janders;”and John L. Case is teaching in his place. M iss, Musa Morris has reenter*d school. A young lady said Young Ami r ica was a “bad egg.” “Whoo-ee! Mr. Watson, I can’t spell it.” j The higher arithmetic class is studying the Appendix. Cheer up. students, cheer up, summer is almost here. Walk about fish, if Saturday is a pretty day “I’ll git you.” The higher algebra class say they wish that old Algebra was in Halifax it is so hard. One of the B Algebra classes said it was just their heads soft. Where are the wits of the nine teenth century to come from if some of them do not come from the Normal? “Young ladies quit your slang and go to work” and we say boys quit it too. Young America feels compli mented that people think he is A. J. T. Prof. Hugh Watson bet his boots that there was a definition of slang in the rhetoric and the funny part is he has no boots. Come to see us. Why don’t the people visit the Noimal? Are they afraid of us? If we do look scary we will not hurt you. Again I say come. Dr. Corput visited the Normaljlast Monday. The geometry class is neailvto book ftnr. They can construct a polygon simular to polygon without any measuring. Young AMifcea. M Sat tons Sutton’s Crossing, Ga., ApriHk —As it is raining today and I cWi not do much on the farm I will write a few items for The Times. Sutton’s crossing is located two miles north of Trenton. It is a beautiful, fertile, and healthy place. The citizens are thriving, contented farmers. There is a. chain of hills east and west of here that are as rich in iron as any “boomer” need wish to see. There is a small creek running through the village the head of which is one ef the heat springs in Dade county. The farmers have been very busy this spring clearing land, making fence, setting out fruit trees turning land. etc. They are planting corn now. Mr. Tittle thinks he will have roasting-ears in about two months. Some of the farmers are inter ested in the Farmers’ Alliance or ganization. Thire has been some talk of a railroad station at the crossing. Why not. Mr*. Morrison has been very sick for two or three weeks, but is bettei now. Mr Dobbs has gone to Chattan ooga -o-day. Mr McLean has returned from a visito St. Louis. Mr Jeff Dobbs and Mr. Jas. Mc- Leanof Chattanooga were visiting their parents in this village yester day. The new schedule failed to acconmodate them much, as they had t) go back by private convey ance. Mr Killian is having a good time now’. He has three boys to boss. I hope Darb will write again. I wish The Tikes much success. Agricola. NOtICE, My stallion will be at John Slay ton’s in Johneon’s crook Friday Marcl 22, Jas, Allison’s 24th, Tren ton, 3, 26 and 27 and at wildwood 28 anl 29 and back to Slayton’s on the 3*th and continue as above, G, w, m,Tatum. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES TO THE GRAND JURY AT MARCH SITTING ;Of the Bride Superior Court—The 1 Convict*at Rising Fawn Complain Not Havin'* Enough to Eat— Treasurer'* Report, Etc. The following reports were made to the grand jury for March term jof Dade Superior court. They ! were too long to go in with the reg ular presehtments: Report Of Committee To Examine County School Commissioner's Rooks. We the committee appointed by the grand jury of said term to ex amine the books of the county school commissioner and report the same: We compliment Mr. J. P. Jacoway for the neat,correct and convenient manner in which he has kept his backs. The amounts tak en in and paid out being so ar ranged that the examining com mittee can see at once how the books stand. H. L. Forester, J. V. Stewart, Committee. Report Of Committee To Examine Convict camps. We the committee appointed to inspect the convict camps in this county, beg leave to make the fol lowing report: We found at Cole City about five hundred convicts, out of this number we only found about 4 per cent, unable for duty. We examined all the stockades and buildings at that place and find them in good condition. Their sleeping departments are well ven tilated and sufficiently furnished with heating stoves, and their beds well supplied with blankets. We find that they are well furnished M ith provisions as the law directs. mYe also examined all the mines fjind found them skillfully propted and well ventilated. The hands are worked by task, which we find they most all complete and thereby get time for themselves every day. Af ter inquiring we find them well pleased with the officers in charge. We also examined the camp at Rising Fawn and find the buildings and the sanitary condition about the same as at Cole City. Out of one hundred and eighty-six about four or five unable for duty. We also examined their different places of work and find that proper pre caution is taken to make the mines safe ai d also well ventilated. Wo further find tliai they are not over worked and all express themselves well pleased with their officers. At this place we heard some com plaint about not getting enough to eat and having very bad syrup. We return thanks to the authorities both at Cole City ancWtising Fawn for courtesies shown. John Hixon, Pledger A. Cooper, Elzy Forester, Isaac Y. Willis, Joel Cross, AlexanderStewart,committee ff 4 We the undersigned committee appointed at September term, 1888, of Superior court to examine the books and records of the seveial county officers of said county and report the following: We have examined the books, records, etc., of the Clerk Superior court and find them kept in conformity to law, and we would suggest in this connection that the ordinary be authorized to furnish the clerk with a duplex index for the pur pose of indexing all the old deeds recorded in the clerks office, ac cording to the present system of indexing deeds. We deeming this of great importance to the citizens of the county for this work to be done, for which work the clerk be paid a reasonable sum as compeusa tion, it being no part of his duty to do said work free of charge. Said work will cost say about $125. We next examined the books and records of the sheriff and find them all correctly kept and the proper entries made therein concerning the various duties of his office and of jailor—said sheriff being his own | jailor. ! We next examined the books j and records, etc., of the ordinary of I said county and find them correct# ;iy kept, as the law direct-, and that he has performed tbo duties of his office faithfully. We then examined the books, re cords, etc*., of the treasurer of said county and find them all right a.id Well kept. FINANCIAL BTATEM NT, Bal. in treasury, settlement per committee Sep. 14. 1888 - #.•,(>'»:: 27 Ree’il from tax coi. for ISBS - ■4,497.1 Received from peddling license 7.50 Received from liquor license - 17b,00 Total ain’t received in treasury to Aiarcii 0, 1809 - $7,735,67 RAID OUT. On jury fund since Sep. 14.1888$ ‘>06.70 On pauper fluid, orders from Ordinary - - 527.09 On general fund, orders from Ordinary - 297.' On com. etc .orders from Ordi nary and Superior court - 968.51 On ja l * fund, order# from Ordi nary - - * 457.95 Total paid out $2,889.32 We find the financial condi'ion of the county good. There being moie money in the treasury at p ent time than was for the last re there being a sufficient ainoun! to run the county well. G. A. R. Bxbl , W. C. CUKETON, Couimii o. County School Commissioner. Re port To the grand jury of said county : I submit this, my, report as county school commissioner of said coun ty for the year 18hS. This year we had the enumeration taken and we ffpd from the report of the er mer ator that there are fifteen hundred and eighty-seven children o school age in said county—seven hundred and ninety-eight females and seven hundred and eighty-nine males. There were taught in said o lunty during said year seventeen white free schools with 866 enrolled pu pils, 430 males and 436 temahs with an average attendance cx >2. There was received by me as county school commissioner, following amounts which compos' u the school fund of 1888: Reeeivca from state school commissioner nine hundred and thirty-three dol lars and eighty-seven cents. I ceived from Thos. Tittle, ax col lector, $678.50, balance on L.. . from last year $97.63 making in all $1,709.63. The following amounts were l aid out for which I hold proper vouc d ers. Fourteen hundred and sixty three dollars and forty cents were paid teachers. One hundred dpi lars paid countyschool commission er for services and expense mi $46 paid enumerator for taxing enumeration leaving a balance c $100.23 all of which fully appears from my record. All of which is respectfully submitted. J. P. Jacoway, C. L. C. Committee To Examine Eooks .Of Justices Of The Peace, We the committee chose to ex amine the dockets of the justices of the peace of the various districts of the county submit the follow ing report: We have examined all the dockets submitted to u: find them correct. We have «. examined the list of voters of the various district of the county a: i if there was any illegal voting *\o failed to discover it. J . A. Moreland, J. V. Stewart, Committee. Report Of Commitiee On °ub!ic Tuildines. We the committee appointed to examine the public buildings of Dade county Bubmit the following report. We have examined the jail and find it in a good sanitary condition and the prisoners pro, ei ly cared for. In the upper ceil w j find at the opening on the soutn side of the cell for ventilation that some of the brick has beer taken out and the ir.side \v. rk Coni inu<d C n Fouzih page, NO, 6.