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TflE JOURNAL,
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KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD 00. GA.
PUBLISHED EVER! FRIDAY BV
PERCY V. HOWELL.
ikis paper is Jb'nfered4n the Post Office
■ at Knoxville, (fu. 'as Scamd Class Matter
'ji/r irons mission Ihivugh the mails. 3
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No advertisement inserted-for dess than
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or all except large contracts.
The Mails.
.The mail from Knoxville to F«#t
drav-a daily, except Siiud.iy.
The mail for anrP’&atoriay. Pratteburg k#r«s on
dav, the Thursday Forsyth leaves Tuesclayj
mail for on
^Tte roail for Macon, «wilh Monday 34 hour lay]
ovor at’Vforrior, leaves ou
Thursday.
"SST THE'KsWXV I LI.E JOCUN AD, DtllOUgll
-small In size, will coutaindn afew weeks
Trent iw*V ttee-ossorree & as much
inte 1 figence asvau'beTound in any
Georgia weekly. No indecorous or ob¬
jectionable matter can ever find its way
■into the columns of tins paper, hut the
publisher will always strive to give
jnublitjanstructiug, interesting and
• steading matter-
-S-A LU TAT O R Y.
'The position vristch the undersigned is
bere to fill is one of great rex portability
and the duties of the publisher of a -county
paper are not few nor small. His efforts.
if directed r ity good 'judgment, may be
instrumental in advancing all the interests
of hie readers. His paper should voice tin
**" sentiments of the bett "people of the com-
enmity, and to be thoroughiv useful it
•should he fully abreast with the times. A
comity i paper should be a cfnipeudfum of
useful hffomwrtion and a pleasant entcr
tainer. 'To be able to make a paper all
this one most needs v be ‘.naturally talented
find well experienced, and the writer,
feeling that his qualifinations arc few
would ask of bis readers not to expect
n ocli. Our. knowledge of what a pip
slioukl he is superior to om ability to make
it so. and we featr a tini.ss we a mfaj ll far
-Port of our aim. Our success will depend
ii a great measure upon tbe interest our
friends may take in our efforts and the
-encouragement they may givo. We intern!
always to advocate the principles of true
Democracy, and hereby dedicate our time
and opportunities to the welfare of
Crawford comity.
"Very respectfully,
Percy V. Howeix.
Let us all pull for the paper, for Knox¬
ville and the county.
If a man does not" keep his business to
himself why then, it's not his own.
Our farmers, to he successful, must lean,
that, the sale of other crops besides cotton
is necessary to sueffess
People who can read and will not take
their county paper are generally too selfish
ito be of use in any community.
Never buy any thing elsewhere Jhat you
can get in the county. In all cases keep
the money at home if practicable,
The people are learning (i more every day
about the tariff issue, and are beginiug to
understand the frauds of protection.
We print eight email pages in preference j
to four large ones because advertisements
are more conspicuous on ‘the small pastes;
and because a paper of this shape suits
country people best.
Hundreds of young mules are being
brought out from Macon, It is a shame
that the money for these mules must go
out of the county. But we have every rea¬
son to hope t hat before long the people can
find anything for sale here that is sold i .
Macon. Tiete is no reason under Heaven
why it should not be so.
There are a few poor misguided individ¬
uals who cannot he persuaded to believe '
that old EnoJtville-can-ever be anything
but what it is- There always have been
“Doubting Thomases,” aud in this day
irul time everybody is ahead of them in
business, and there is no plaoc tor them
except in the backwoods
The people of Crawford county need not
expect a good .paper until they give it the
patronage 'they should. No investment
pays better than -an advertisement, and
without t b is -k i nd of' b usiucss the paper will
lie a poor affair. It is a compliment to the
business iutegritv of thos whose advertise¬
ments appear in i his issue that they have
seen fit to patronize this home institution
and not less docs it bespeak for them, as
good business men, the confidence and es¬
teem they have in and for the enterprise.
ALL OYER GEORGIA.
The loss of the Haiinan E?low tfadtory bv£
lire at Atlanta last Week-is estimated at
$26,000, covered by insurance.
The podlt-y -and pel stock show at Au¬
gusta is one of .-the best ever had in-the
•State.
The Boitia House at Wrightsville was
destroyed by fire last week. Only a part
of the furniture was saved, and the board
rs’ effects ‘were lost.
Some rascal Tore Up-some ot'the Griffin
Sun printing office fixtures on the sly a
few days age, but the -Situ mime out any
way.
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It has just come To Tight recently That
Mr, C. F. Fdrhsr and Miss Fannie Wyche,
of Leesburg, were secretly married ou the
Cth of last ©eoember by Justice Walden.
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A company is forming to establish au ice
manufacturing concern at Millt-dgeville.
Thceajiital stock will i* about ^15,000.
Nfr J. I. Lestw. of Ouniitig, lias accepted
v- position in Atlanta as corresponding sec-i
tary for the BradstrcutMercantile agency.
Professor Dowar.da, a sleight of hand
showman came near get'ing iuto trouble at
Madison some days ago- He promised to
give a wav $20 to the one of the audience
who should hold the lucky number, and a
little girl from the audience was selected to
do the draw n x. The Prof, snbstituted
mother ticket for the lucky one and was
.thou to give the money to a stranger when
the crowd objected and would have had
him arrested, but Ixnvanda took leg bail.
The prohibition election contest at craw
fordvilte Isas been a tedious oue, aud has
pushedso far that a decision cannot be
granted until Judge Lumpkin holds court
in February. One bar, however, has Veen
running ever since the election last fall.
(Fort Gaines claims the finest game chick
eus and the prettiest girls in Georgia.
A mad dog threw the little town of Tal
botton into a terrible state ol excitement
ast Saturday, No persons were bitten.
There is a good deal of emigration from
Middle Georgia just now to the timber
gj 0I) j a South-east Georgia,
Work on the Columbus Sr uthern rai^
roa l is being pushed rapidly.
On the night of the ' 10th while Mr.
Wiley Byrd, oar Haz! iii was busily
engaged in his smoke house salting meat,
a party of four or five men surrounded the
bouse and threatened his life in case he
would not give them his money.
One night iast week as a party of young
peopie were returning from a walk in the
woods near Sylvauia, a little rabbit came
nutofthe bushes aud stopped hi the febt
of the pret iest girl df the party. It could
hardly be driven away. The boys thought
larger animals -could he Attracted' to her
likewise.
Mr. J. C. Barnes, 6f Butts cefahty, car¬
ries a minnic ball hr his pbeket that was
shot into him during'the war. After be¬
ing annoyed by tiie'wcutid several years,
lie took his knife one Say 'rterd cut iuto
his hack and took out the br.ll.
The young student of ■Oxford, who'Shot
himself some days ago, it is thought wd!
recover but will lose his eyesight.
Last week Butts county turned ‘ever ’'to
the medical authorities of Atlanta‘-the first
dead patlpflrfOr dissection undo: -the ’new
law.
Mr. J. A. ^Vrticlie, 'df RrtrttcS'Ville, -l-.as
purchased the'fXfWon ’Journal.
The Baptist church at TbomaftvUtc is
stilt without a pastor.
A Aron Fambrough was ‘arrested near
Griffeo tiAturdey for trying to fire'into a
passing passenger train.
Miss'May 'W. Walker, of l^alton, has
composed a beautiful song entitled “Sail
ing LI. line’’that lias been bought by Eas¬
tern publishers. Miss Walker is a cousin
of Banks Winter, the -popular Southern
minstrel and anthor of “White Wings.”
At Toccoa Sunday night, while Rev. S
Y. Jameson was preaching aa interesting
sermon in the Baptist church, the roof was
f und in flaniea. by a little hard work it
was sogn extinguished, doing ■very little
damage. It caught Iromfi defectivestovt
pipe.
The continued rains have almost put a
stop to business in Buvtow county.
According to a recent count, -marie for
leap year purposes, there are in Griffin 105
widows,525 widowers, 24 old in bids aud
23 old bachelors. This is startling, if not
terrifying.
There ate nearly 200 divorce esses on the
docket of 'Fulton Superior ’Court- Some of
these suits have lteen in the court several
years- For the roost part they are devoid
of lomaucc or sensatio n
J. A. Smith’s gin bouse and press, four
miles west of Washington, was burned at
2 o’clock Friday. He lad cotton store.dd
iaivay under his gin house, but suecceed
iidgetting it away withoutjdamage.
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