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THE KMlVn rtE VOLUME I. ALL -OVER GEORGIA.. There are 113‘ 'children bow attetiding school in Perry; • Covingtori capitalists' are establishing a guano factory and oil mill. A boy with six fingers and a thumb bn wft-hnnd wasjo Bast mite-last week. _y J T&: Piicy Woods Hotel at ’Thomasville r has upwa'rdA'bf 150 guesta. and engage¬ ments for quite a number more. One of the besit and 'irnfet successful farm ers of Sumttr county said Mouday that he had paid out $1,890 cash for mules in the last, thirty days. Some of the citizens of the western por¬ tion of DeKidb county’tvant td be annexed to Fulton county. TheprojEci is-beingex tinrsively'disoiissech ! The residence of Dr; J, P. Philips; near GldrksVille, which was burned on the morh ng- of- Jan."21, was insured for 3,000 vThich will not coverthe loss sustained.' The plans fbrtbteSi. SimonsBeachHo tcl by architect' WilRam Anderson has latm completed and shbmitteSM It is beau tiful in desigu and arnodel in comfort. At-Augusta fire destroyed $2,000 Worth cotton 1 in the Langley factory picker room late i uesdsy flight, but the machinery es¬ caped uniujured. < Everything insured. At Tallapbosa on WiSlfffesday 'a brake, mati by the name of John DrSwford jeoiored)' was crushed'to death, being instantly kill ed by a freight ear turning over'Ofi him. Mr. vSpringer;tbe GhOrokee county farm¬ er whose wife left-trim to go -iff with 4*-Mr. Johnson, a hireling on-Ms-farm, now offers a reward of $400 : for thc x-.aptwe of b ;j’ wifb’s * paramour. •’ A movement i* on foot to organise ’afire insurance company in Newnan with a large paid-up capital, and the projectors arc-meeting with- encouragement 1 among tbo- moneyed mem of the town. Mr. Cciially, of Rerhe-, euffi>red r a‘verj- pftii, l'ul accident Tuesday'While making a trip out' to see his cousin, Hon. Charles Mem¬ ber. He was thrown from his buggy and * ; is toft arm was broken below the elbow. Airs. Fate;-mother of J. F. I’sfci* of Claj county, has a pocket-knife that has'been in her family for'more thah lOO ybars, and ;t is thonght that the'first weaver’s siey that was ever used-in Georgia was ma<V with this knife. - The students of the State University at Athens have decided to build in that city a handsome club bouse, to cost $2O,0(K) or 25,000 to be erected ou some site conven¬ ient to the campus. This club room is de¬ signed as a place of pleasure aud recreation for the students. ■ A lady of Marietta recently attended a fashionable wedding dinner where the sand¬ wiches were tied with a white satin rib< n Tlethg extremely- liear-sighted she did not see the ribbon and did not know that she had eaten it with the sandwich nntd she felt it in her throat. At Ty-Ty Saturday night, at a negro chnreb, there was a stabbing affray in'which one negro woman severely cut another one iu the breast and another long gash over the eye. In tbe-fight threo negro women sud one negro man were engaged/ but only the -one woman was hurt. Before the lato war some tobacco land* KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA..' FEB. 1888 in ‘Decatur contraty rented-at $40 per acre. Cno year L. M. ! Griffin, who was then a merchant; and wlibia now living at TBainbridge, bought ou the streets of Bain bridge over |200;0fi0 wdf-th of tobacco raihed in Decatur and GadBden counties. iltiSStSf&XSZ; Kirfff v. T ,. ,, , „ Tho motlMW'te b<. y lo*ed Ih, little fellow ,n the kmM and wont away to ^tteudto she fomi‘1 lrcr on y-the‘ehhrred oadydutK-s remains On TtiOMte? of hef offspring still broil,ug on the coals. - the farmers’ Alliance has stired up Troup county. Theteommotion arose' over the fact that a large dealer atT.aG range refus* ed to loan two good farmers money because they were alliance men. 1 Some of their members withdrew to get nv.ilEs, or be¬ cause the alliance stores wiH not credit them. Sunday seemed to be h'bad day for the Anifericus, Preston and Lutrpkln railroad Besides the accident at Americus, as the train left Johfrston, and just between that station and the river, some miscreant had left a pole car too near the track, and as the train passed, tiie pole car knocked-off four pairs of steps from thg eoacheCi Tom McOulloughs/'Waltou county, teas tried for insanity recently; and the jury-fail ing to adjudge him k-fit'subject for the as¬ ylum he-was tried ntSfer a peace warrant sworn cmt by his brother, fie was com mitted under a bond 0f $109; avid after spending sometime-in jailkijr father went on his bond; w;lh'the understanding: that he was to l*»vt the’county;' The directors' of'the'-Jvek narr'cottcfn f4c ^ or F met Tuesday, arid sevOraF thousand ( *°R a r»" of UtldiUonAt subSeViptions weffeht P ortc d since last meeting. The Commit tee 0,1 Location reported numerous ptojio sitons made by property owners iu and a round the efty, all of 1 whorfi were willing to exchange their lands at reasonable- fig¬ ures for paid-bp-stock- in the company. The veil worn oh the occasion of recent marriage of Miss-Lula Rockwell, of Mill edgeville, and Mr ID W. Hall, -was 80 years old. It was'presented to the late Mrs. Samuel Rockwell, of Baldwin couuty on the night of her marriage; at Providence R. I. The lace was worn at the bail given in honor ot Son;" Lafayette Id Milledge ville in 1825> Tne bride was presented with a set of pearls valued at $300. Harrison, a town situated midway be¬ tween Tennille 1 aud fPrrgfitsvillc, on one of the principal branches of the great Cen¬ tral trunk line, the'Wrightsvflle and Tenu illc railroad, three years ago hai ouiy two families. To day the population is 800. The advantages the place holds out to capitalists as a business centre have caus ed a regular boom in real estate, aud dwell and storehouses have sprung up as if by magic. In South West Goorgia the Watermelon plautcrs arc busy preparing forthat impor¬ tant crop. There will be increase in acre age in and around Dougherty county There will be perhaps more than 1,000 car loads of melons shipped from stations be¬ tween Smithville and -Camilla, inclusive for 1888. Atlanta’s black listing of-'dstinkards is no new thing- In 1876 E. H. ’Gronby, the pvopriatoi- and editor of a paper in Blakely blacklisted himself iu the following onlcr; On and after date the undei.figned gives notice that he will prosecute any person him intoxicating liquor of any kind to the full extent of the law. This is not for the purpose of injuring whisky dealers but to get sober and stay so." J.'W, Calhoun','of Arlington, has de¬ monstrated that 'Tartiiirtg does nay when properly conducted on the intensive system cotton .M mhEMST &■»£? 5 ,;,fe 0 - bnshe | s oT oats . 20 - bale8 of cotton and 20* bushel* ot coin.' After paying off his feuds and $400 ; f6r lAam.Ves he cltafc , betCT& $m and It. L. Brjomfiiiltl has purchased 150 acres of land at Harriett Shoals’ near the site he has chosen for his new thread mill?. Mess eas. P roomfield aud Cheney now own sev oral thousand acres of the most 'valuable land in that'sectioh, including many fine shoals and wood lands- W/’J* 'Matthews * waS severely injured Monday'in Amcricns. PrJstori He is a conductor on fcbd Americas,' and 'Lufnfcifffail road, and was oil his train'hWVrhg it tWn cd on the turn-table. While standing'ou the platform of one of the cars, ar.d -aS the table get near the proper position, the train started and ran off, throwing Mr. Matthews from tbetear to the ground, dislocating his knee and bruising’ him on hi3"face and back. Oft' January jg James Rent!, a good cit* izen of Tattnall countv, was walking through the mill of Mr-’Bazemore/bn the Olioopec river, when he stumbled and fell across tfie saw. The saw struck him on the top of the head and made its way through hi? body aud came out near his left hip. entirely severing ha left side frotn Iris body. At Atlanta, the Shit brought by if. B Frank agaiust the Atlanta and West Point Railroad fi>f $25100) ife recompense for damages received by him in the ■with' a train on the Savannah. Griffin and North Alabama Railroad, at Newnan, about a year ago, has just ended in a \er diet of $10,000 for the plaintiff James /Pirant, a colored boy, was di owned at Darien a'few days ago. He fell from a dock from which lie was fishing. Atlanta’s traffic in mules is estimated at $3,500,000 jjei jear. It is estimated that the receiqts during the five months of this busy season will average - ’ eight car load,, per day, which is equivalent to oVer 25,000 mules. A boijer. esplerirtn at "’Downs’ mill, in the upper part of Marion county, Friday resulted in tbo death of three men. TO Ti!i: JOtthdW'AiLs - ■ The following little waif strayed into our office the other day, and there was nothing about it to show where or from whom it came. It was found near the’ door, Some modest but warn hearted friend of THE JOURNAL will recog¬ nize it: We welcome you into our lmme’f’ * With cheery, hearty will, And hope to see the day soon cctne' When each house on tile hill, And every cottage round about * Shall know your cheerful face; A journal honest-like and free, Is gbod about the place. We’ve waited for your coming long,' - Vour advent makes us glad ; We greet you with this little song Ami hope times wont be bad. Feby. 1. 1888. K. Life fnsuranc. statistics are said to’ Bhow thcie arc now 820,000 policies in this coun¬ try, representing an aggregate insurance of $ 2 , 100 , 000 , 000 . NUMBER 2 . I*rood of tile Paper. In a letter to Mr. F- H. Wright, of this place, Mr. John I. Champion,a prominent citizen of this county, in speaking of the ■iooiiNAi,,'say^: “I have received^ copy' oFthe kkox VILLB JotmsAt. ,1 read it closely and h ed it awaywithmy private paners, that nly grand children may at some future dav se : ’*> *? rt js fye (irat paper' ever printed ' m our dead town', f hope the editor is an ’ enterprising young mam I will give him all the aid I can, an, 1 hope every body will *. a life-tune subscriber—.hope oan muvU ®ya3» as of his little gem ’ a paper may shine as a bright star,” etc. Savannah Morning Ne.ws. . i vdustrious j’ he 'ndustrious than - bee will have to he more honey ever, now that artificia’ is being made. The comb is man¬ ufactured from white wax, placed in ajar and the Syrup poured over it. It is not i very good imitatijn, aud can easily be de¬ tected. but it is- much cheaper than the real article, Will the dealers raise c price and pass off as genuine honey ? A Cincinnati man whose fine, blooded buggy horse becime siek, concluded to turn him. out with some mules in a pasture and allow tho auimal'to take a course of Nature’s treatment, The mules found the horse lying down and turned in and ate all the mane and tail of the blooded cours, er - This shovfs tlmrauything mean happen.at Cmeinu.iif; ‘ Fort Geo. ValleyTEntetprism Alexander, ' Ivan president of the Central road, in conversation with a promt. nent citizen of Houston-County few davs said a ago, fbs Saya*& Ahd Fort Valfev railroad would certainly be built, and that work would be commenced on it within two months, or as soon as they could finish the tunnel on the Good wafer'* extension. This news, coming direct frofu headquar¬ ters, will be greeted by our people with delight, from the fact that if will beoefit •our town very much as it will give u three outlets to the sea. The completion of the Good water extension will give us direct liue a to the coat and iron field?, thereby insuring ns cheap fuel and a cheap freight rate on iron for our manufactories which ‘will be a big help t 0 the town The completion bf the A. & F. R. R which is now a certainty, will give our town a competing line north and west. thereby securing for us equally as low rates of freight at either Mac n or Atlan¬ ta get, whic will call for the opening tip 0 f wholesale houses hete to supply the trade of South»v(9t Georgia. Appoinraenrs filie for (he Kno* Circuii For'February i- IP89’ Knokvifiji the 5th at 11 A. M. & 6 30 P MaecSofiia the 11 & 12 at 11 A- M. Hebron’the 18 & 19 at 11 A. M. Dixon the 25 & 26 at 31 A; M.’ Bethel the 2ff : 'at 3 P, M. Beaver Dam the 19 at 3 Pv M. Prayor mooting every Wednesday eve, ning aH 30 P. M. at Knoxviile. W. L. Carter, P. C. Notice tO'Tewehei'i ^FutrouW A RRXNGBMENTS have'bseh made by the Board of Education tor the op eration of Public Schools of Hie county. J. W. 13 LASIXGA M.JBf■'(-■: S. C. Mules for Sale. ASB U MULE, seven ycais f cRI.’ cash ;nfdLs» -’t ‘ for sale cbvap ‘ r ot size Also term time with good papers- one mule for sale for cash or on time ---«■ good papers until fall. - -