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TflE JOURNAL, &• 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 . RATES. Subscription 6 months......... . $0.75 n ” ..... . 1.00 AdvertnsemttftsT inch i insertion.....6Q M column 1 „ 6.00 T 3 ‘1 year .. "60 0(j 2 3 .1 ,, .. 100,00 No advertisement inserted-for dess than : 25 cents. Terms strictly cash fesad 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. - 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. •I 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. n mi PI I i# Sj#g experience After "Forty in years ths [nOl preparation Hundred of mors f] than One m Thousand applications and for horci»n patents m KSH the United States eoum. tri«f», American the publishers continue to of act the as hcjentiho solicitors __ to obtain patents in Canada, Eng 1 JJ’uh.• n&sonable. 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