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THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL. VOLUME I. ALL OVER GEORGIA. Jacob Walton, of Augusta, has a duck thatjays black eggs. There were 281 marriage llc.-nses issued jn Burke county last year. The streets of Athens are soon to be paved with Belgian blocks. The oil mill and guano factory at Con¬ yers is doiug a good business. Albany will probably have a cotton ex¬ change in time for next season. A gun contest between Jesn p and Gra¬ ham will be shot next Saturday Waynesboro people have subscribed $28,000 to tbe new bauk project. Hawkinsville had received up to Wednes¬ day morning 19,811 bales of cotton. A handsome spire will be erected on tbe Presbyterian church at Dalton soon. Two Mormon preachers arc still preach¬ ing in tbe eastern part of Terrell county. The shipment of sau.-ago from Dalton hasfbecome a Business of considerable pro¬ portions. The steamer Aid now plying the Flint river, is said to have made $1,000 in one week recently. The law class of 1888 is the largest ever in the State University, containing about twenty members. Timber lands in Southwest Georgaa are s lid to be offered for sale at Albany at 25 to 50 ceuts per acre. It is authentically stated that half the city of Ualton is located upon a rich bed of tine variegated marble. It is admitted that there were $60,000 spent for whisky in Dodge county the year previous to prohibition. Workmen have been busy for almost a week in putting up the new town clock in the,new court house at Amoricus. James T. Corley says lie will soon want 2.600 cress tics for the first mile of th street railroad at Covington. T. P. Parks, a negro, has ’ registered at the Ordinary’s office in Terrell comity as a physician, and will practice among his race, W. H. Finley, of neer Dalton raised a globe turnip last fall measuring 26 inches in circumference aud weighing seven pounds Tbe Chattanooga Scales Company is seeking a location at Oaitersville, and have been offered libe.al inducements by the citizens of the town. Saturday night some miscreant stole the street lamp from in front ot thehSt. James Hotel at Dawson. The post was tatcen away with the lamp. J. Theodore Gurney, patentee and man¬ ufacturer of the famous Gurney cabs, is at Rome for the purpose of putting a lint of cabs on the streets. There are now in Houston county forty seven licensed school teachers, and that number of schools are heing taught, or will be at a very early date. As James Carey was driving along the road near his home in Sumpter county a few days ago a tree was blown dowu on him, dislocating his sheulder. Frank Finch, a young graduate of tin State University, was Killed near Quitman Weduesday. He, with two companions, was horseback riding and decided upon a KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., FEB. 10, 1888 race on tne road between the residences of Hon. H. G. Turner and F. J. Spain. The saddle turning caused Finch's horse to dart through the woods and dashed him agsinst a tree, crushing his skull. The gentlemen who are to establish the canning fastory at Quitman have ordered the necessary machinery. The machinery will have a capacity of 10,000 cans a day. As James Cary was driving along the road near his home in the Fifteenth district of iSuenter county, a day or two ago, a tree was blown down on him, dislocating his left shoulder. There are 8,000 miles of railroad in Georgia, forming a complete network, well distributed as to locality aud sections, and reaching 100 out of the 137 counties of the State. The probable valueis $80,000,000. Montezuma has received up to date over 1, 000 bales of cotton moie this season than for the san e time last year. The farmers are in a better condition now than last year. Some of them have cotton on hand. Ida Atkinson, colored, had a child stolen by a negress at Augusta at noou Wednesday, who disgnised herself as a milk seller. The police have been notified of tne theft, but the child has not been re¬ covered. There has bean more building and improve mcnl in Cuthbert during the last year than for a number of years, and it is still going on. There are no vacant residences in the city and several are now in course of con¬ struction. One bank at Ha wkinsville loaned $30,000 last year to farmers, and every note except one was paid promptly. Only one mort¬ gage against a farmer was foreclosed in Pulaski county this season, and that was not done by the bank. . Hon. C. 0. Post, formerly ot Chicago, but for the last year a citizen of Douglas ville, has purchased the entire interest in the canning factory, and on Tuesday broke dirt for the building. He will have it ready lor the next fruit and berry crop, Saturday near Longview, Dodge county, Bullard Harrell, a co orcd boy aged ten years, threw two children of James Pobe, colored, into a kettle of boiling water, boiling them to death, and killed a third child by heating its brains out against a tree. At Milledgeville on Thursday while Jack Stroherg, a young white man from Macon, was painting on a scaffold on the Georgia railroad bridge over the Oconee river, he lost his balance and fell about forty feet among the rocks, being killed instant y John Whitaker, a negro of Dawson, has goue crazy because at the last colored con¬ ference he was not given an appointment to preach. Whitaker is the negro who was elected directly after the war to repre¬ sent Terrell county in the Constitutional C avenelen. At Way cross a lew days ago I. R. B. James, son of W. T. James, of Ware coud ty, had Drs, Folks and Carswell cut a tu¬ mor about the size of a goose egg from his throat, uhe operation was quite a deli¬ cate one, but was successfully performed, and the patient is doiug well. Last Friday a larg drove ol bl ck birds approached near to the residence of Mr F. W. Curtright, about six miles cast of Perry. Mr. Curtright was not at home, but Mru Curtright dete mined that she would have some of those birds. She went out with a gun in her hands, and fired the load from one barrel into tbe drove of birds killing 68 of them. This feat establishes her as the champion “lady sportsman'' of Houston county. Jim Whittoll, a negro, was arrested Monday night in the lower part of Doug¬ las county, charged with stealing a horse and wagon. He was placed in the custo¬ dy of John Long, and that night managed to shoot Mr. Long twice and escape. Both wounds are flesh wounds in the right arm, and are not serious. A colored man who lives near Smith ville reports that on Monday night some un¬ known partes dressed up like ghosts, came to his house and trird to frighten him. They groaned and beat tin pans and walk¬ ed around his house for an hour or more when he finally drove them off by threat¬ ening to shoot them. L, McManus & Co. and Philip Doha & sons will soon commence the erection of a large furniture factory at Macon. It will be located on the land now leased by Hays & Mansfield, and will be built with a spe¬ cial view to the manufacture of the finer as well as tbe cheaper grades of furniture. Nine-tenths of the wood used by them will be Georgia-grown. An ex-Confederate soldier who had his lower jaw shot off during the war was at Calhoun a day or two ago and applied to a physician for a certificate, that he might draw a pension under the recent act of the Legislature. He is terribly Inconvenienced about eating, but otherwise is able to work. It is not believed that a pension will be granted him. J. J, Kinchen, of Hawkinsville, during the past year, van five plows, and made 106 bales of cotton, averaging 530 pounds per bale, 1,600 bushels of corn, 1,000 bushels of peas, 400 bushels of potatoes, aud au abundant supply of fodder and oth¬ er provender. In addition to the above extraordinary 4,000 crop, Mr. Kinchcn saved pounds of pork. Charles Jones, the fireman on the tram engine of L. Johnson & Co., at Johnson ville, in Appling county, was ruu over by his engine Feb. 28. The engine ran over his left foot, mashing it from his instep, to his toes, and caught his rignt thigh and mashed and mangled it His foot has been amputated, and his physicians are trying to save hi? leg, but have little hopes of do¬ ing so. John R. Veasey, who until Wednesday traveled lor L. A. R- Reabs wholesale liq¬ uor house of Augusta, commi.te l suicide Thurs lay night by taking an overdose of laudanum at his room in J. J. Palmer’s boarding house at Augusta. Every means were tried to recuscbate Mr. Veasey but withont effect. Mr, Veasey is from War rent >n and once represented Warren county in the State Legislature. He was a wid¬ ower. Financial trouble is assigned as tne canse of this rash act. Uncommon. From Tax Collector Thames we learn that there is a lady living iu Knoxville who has not tasted a drop of water in thirty years. The lady is Mrs. Sam, Lowe and she is seventy years old. She has never taken more than two spoons-ful of water, all put together, in her life. She has been comparatively healthy and can give no r e; son for not drinking water. This is in a stran g e caw. NUMBER 3. Aisthelfc Neighbors. We have known for some time that o neighbors in Fort Valley were people of good taste; people who can not tolerate the abuse of a divine art any more than they will admit ot their generosity aud hos¬ pitality being insulted. On Wednesday last the Valley was in¬ vaded by the bagpipe bandits, who sought to torture a refined community into meas ures unreasonable. Tha Highlanders were antagonised by a body of the citizens who ordered the “bonnie laddies” to emigrate in five minute’s time This the Scotch refused to do, where npon the Valleyites brought forth siteks with which they beat a quickstep upon the persons of the dark song of Scotland whom they drove forth from their homes and their market places, and compelled them to quiet the voices their instruments. Kiid Herds, Fori Valley Mirror : “Tne first number of the Knoxville Journal was published Friday, Jan. 27th 1888. The paper is ruu by Mr. Percy V. Howell and will be wholly devoted to the iuterest of Knoxville and the surrounding country. The Journal is an eight page pa¬ per and will no doubt give Crawford the advertising and general booming it has been iu need of so long. We wish the Journal many subscribers and a hearty welcome.” Fort Vaidey Enterprise : “The Knoxville Journal is the name of a new paper ju.-t issued at Knoxville, Craw¬ ford County. Mr. Percy V. Howell, is tbe editor and proprietor. We trust that Mr- Howell will meet with success far be¬ yond his expectations, and we are glad to place his paper on our exchange list, au we welcome him as our neighbor. Editor of Knoxville Journal. lhave just received the second issue ot your papor, and most cheerfully consent that you may add my name to your list of subscribers. For the people of Knoxville and the county of Crawford I entertain the warmest and most kindly feeling, and hail W> h pleasure any enterprise that is intended to promote their interests. 1 have the most cherished recollections of the people of my old county, who have given me their confidence and support, and will always stand among the foremot in contributing everything in my power to advauco their prosperity. I am rejoiced to see as a result of the railroad which will soon be completed to Knoxville, tbe establishment of a news¬ paper, which is always the harbinger of better and more prospjrous days. With her natural resource, and a population distinguished for enterprise, intelligence and moral worth 1 hope and expect to see Crawford assnme that prominence commer¬ cially which it has always commanded so¬ cially, morally and intellectually among the influential counties of the State. I trust you may succeed in perma¬ nently establishing a paper that will rep¬ resent the interest of a people whom 1 know well and for whom I have the highest regard. Very Respectfully, L. D. Moore. Macon, Ga., Feby. 8, 1888. Penitentiary companies 2 aud 8 paid in- 1 1 the State Treasury $5000 this week. This amount was imposed upon the least- a as flues last September by Uov. Gordou for alleged cruel treatmeut of convicts;