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Communicated.
Bcsfiville, Jano 12, 188: Crops
are doing well; cotton is rather small,
owing to the late cool spring, but is
growing finely under the influence of
suushine and elbow erea6o.
A good shower would be appreciat
ed now by the farmers and gardeners.
Bnshville’a Literary Club ia still on
a boom. We cau also boast of the
Vest Sunday school ia the county.
Mr. R*y Abraham of Arkadelphia,
Ark., who is spending the summer
with Rev G. H. Cartledge, \reached
at Buehville school house last Sunday
afternoon, 5 oMock, p. m. Mr. Abra
ham is a young man and a student of
the Southern Theological Seminary,
Columbia, 8 C., and bids fair to make
one of the profoun lest thinkers for
which that tchool ts famous, llis test
was Hebrew 13th aud 15th; “I will
never leave thee nor forsake thee.”
The line of thought was grand and
sublime. We hope to have another
visit from the young divine at an early
day.
We observed the ganial editor of
the Observer at the picnic at Grove
River last Saturday, and we sup
pose he will write up the affair.
Come again, Mr. Editor. Got.
Several years ago, a negro named
McThurber, living near Dowdy, in
Madison county, wasurresled for break
ing into the store ot Mr. J. W. Sey
mur.
The pcsso who subsequently arrest
ed the negro, gave him such a bevere
whipping that he died, and on his
death bed ho told who the seven men
were who whipped him. Warrants
were accordingly issued for their arreaN
Toombs Bryant was caught, tried for
the offense and sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary. A man named
Cheatham was also tiled for the same
offense and came clear. The other
fi v e who were implicated fled the coun
try, and some of them have been liv
ing in Florida ever since. Warrants
were sent to Orange county, Fla., and
a short time ago the sheriff of Madison
county, received notice that A. II
Strickland had bun arrested and
Sheriff Scarboro, armed with the neers
sary papers went alter him and has
Strickland safely in jail in Danie's
villa. The remaining four oi them
who did the whipping are at large, but
the sheriff is after them, and will no
doubt, succeed in bringing them back.
-[Banner- Watchman.
Chinese Superstitions.
A girl who is partaking of the last
meal efce is to eat in her father’s house
previous to hir marriage, sits at the
table with her parents and brothers;
but she mutt eat no more than half
the bov.l of rice sot before her, else her
departure will be followed by continu
al scarcity in the domicile she is leav
ing.
if a bride breaks tha heel of her
{.hoe in going ficrn her father’s to her
husband's house, it is ominous of un-
happiness in her new relations.
A piece of bacon and a parcel of su
gar arß linng on the back of a bride s
sedan chair as a sop to the demons
who might molest her wh-lo on her
journey. The “Three Baneiul One-d '
are fond of ealt and spice3, and the
‘•White Tiger” like sweets.
A fe-ids may be brought homo while
t, coffin is in her hu*bmil’s hunso, but
not within ons hundted nays after a
coffin ie carried out. Domostio trou
bles are sure to come upon one who i*
married within a hundred days after a
funeral.
A bride, while putting on her wed
ding garments, stands in a round
shallow, basket. This conduces to her
leading a placid, well-rounded life in
her future. After her departure from
her father's door her mother puts the
basket over the mouth of the oven, to
stop the mouths of all who would
make adverse comment on her darg’i
ter, and then sits down before the
kitchen range that her peace and leis
uro may be duplicated in her dangh
ter’s life.
A bride must not, for four months
after her marriage, enter any house in
which there has recently been a death
or a birth, for if nha d>es there will
surely be a quarrel between her and
the groom, if a yocng mother goes
to boo a bride, the y'r.tor is looked up
on as the ean* ot any calamity that
may follow.--[Popular Science Month
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Quaint and Curious,
The ancients considered lemons a
poison.
“And” ocou;f. m the Old Testament
35 543 tic os.
Fifty words a minnte is good speed
for a type writer.
This country has just halt the rail
roads of the world.
A man recently adverti ed in a Chi
cago p3jcr for “au unmitigated liar.”
San Francis o \ olicemen say that
thc-y have never ;een a drunken China
man.
A list of pla_\B which people in
mourning may properly attend, is put)
lished iu paris.
A convention of persona who wesr
glass oy*s is to bo called to meet in
Mil .vank e
Mont Bltuo, the highest peak o
the Alps, whs fist ascended in 1788
by the scientist 11. B. de S*u&ure.
The biids which live to bo over a
hundred years old aie the eagle, tLe
swan, and the raven.
No smoke arises from any house in
Japan. Charcoal furnaces are used in
cooking and heating.
Peter Anderson of Teire Hunt',
lad., recently diank thirty gallons oi
water in twenty-four hours.
Au elephant in the funeral proces
sion to a recent Hindoo cremation
wore a silver collar worth $25,000.
A port mortem examination by Dr.
Forman of the body of Police L’eat,
Shields pro Yes that death was due to
heart disease. He died literally of a
“broken heart," as theit was a hole in
that organ into which a lead penoil
wcu’d lit. He was an inveterate srnok
er and chewer, and there is no doubt
but that the excessive use of tobacco
contributed to the cause of death.—
[Philadelphia Record.
Shiloh's Cough and Coneumpt oa
Cato is sold by us on a gnaran'ee. It
cures Consumption. W. B. Ms ton,
Homer.
mm to all.
Call at the Store of General Mer
chandise & Plantation Supplies,
Dry Goods, Notions,
Flour and Meat, Sugar and Coflee, for Cash, or Country Produce
Taken in Exchange at Highest Market Price.
W. C. J. GARRISON, Homer, Georgia.
Cheap i; ash Store.
O, sMLq&ou,, "l^Qovww,
General Merchandise & Plantation
S U PPLI ES, DRY GOODS & N OTIO NS.
Keep on hand a full stock of Groceries, Flour, Meal. Meat, Sugars,
Coffees, Teas, Molases, Tobacco and Cigars. Country Produce Taken
in Exchange at Highest Market Price. When in town call in.
Notions and Groceries,
J. E. STEPHENS, HOMER, GA.
A Nice Line of Confectioneries,
Ctounry Produce Taken in Exchange at Highest, Market prices.