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ALL OVER GEORGIA. ♦ Eighteen passenger trains pass through ‘‘Dalton daily. Dawsonites used $1,500 worth of pos ' tage stamps last yeur. Quitman’s the Herald, ha 8 new paper, j ‘ made a successful debut. Brooks county is shipping carload after carload of beeves and hogs. Griffin people have subscribed $78,000 for the erection of a new cotton factory. The estate of the late Editor Dwinell, of -the Rome Courier is appraised at $50,000 The slock law in Clarke county is work¬ ing nicely, and all opposition to - it has 'ceased. Two hundred and twenty-four marriage licences were issued in Coweta county last year. G. J. Tripp, of Dodge edumty, killed re¬ cently a pig only >18 months I hat weighed 510 pounds. i In a few days from now Atlanta diavc fifty-seven bar rooms, each $1,500 license. J. T. Mallory, alias J. T. Smith, was arrested at butler, Ga., Saturday, on the -charge of forgery. There are in And around Athens several ‘degraded white women who aro living in houses with negroes. On two adjoining lots at Athens aro ing five couples, all of -Whom have been ‘married since'Christmas. At Tails poor a active operations were begun Monday morning on the Parker & ■Leach-broom manufactory. The building boom at Tallapoosa is phe ■noinena], Over ICO stores and buildings having been erected sfcce Sdp.'l. ’The body of a dead infant Was found in ! the river at Rome Friday. The Coroner’s jury was unable to solve the mystery. ’J. Heilbron.-An old resident of Cutlibert. 1 died Wednesday. He was 94 years old,and • served under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815, The Bainbridge Democrat, last week -devoted four and a half colums to boom¬ ing tobacco cts an industry for •county. An enthusiastic Satilla river ‘man 'that they grow cabbages so large up 'that (hey can't ship one in au ffli fir barrel. Dr.'Long, of Nt-wnar, lias e brother in Alabama who presented him with u car had of coal list wdek. The freight aun tinted to$53 Frank Edmunds, a young-man, while ••dancing at a ball given at his father’s house '•near Gumming dropped dead on the floor •Iasi Saturday night. •Joseph Shields, ot Marietta, had a foot badly tnaslud a day or two ago by a block of marble weighing 2,000 pounds which fell while being raised. The census of Tallapoosa was taken last week and shows an increase of over 1,000 since August, the population at -that time being 721, and to-day 1,721. Gold has been panned froth tho very •dirt In the streets of Franklin, and the •out croppings of many diflerent kinds valuable minerals can befound on •cvi ry hlfi. A party of gentlemen from Dawson •spent two oj three days in the neighbor. 4 .ood of Joiner’* pond lank week hunting *nnd fishing, and caught 2B5 fish, wine ‘aggregated 360 pounds. W. B. Wood, Georgian, has received Ilia letters of patent on his elevated rail* ay invention. He has been offered $26,000 *r it aa<3 to refused it. One m«n written him to name'his price. "'One man can propel 1,600 pounds sixteen miles per hour with perfect ease. The cost of building a track Is a mere trifle, Wood is a poor man and has a large family. A certain person fn Tallapoosa bought a piece of property there }uite recently for $4,000, paying $5 down to bind the bar¬ gain. A short Time afierwaad the purclms er sold the property for $5,000, thus mak¬ ing $ 1 ,000 upon an investment of $5. A great muny of the children of Wash¬ ington have been sick the past week, and all of them have been affected very much alike. They are suddenly taken with vi¬ olent nausea, which is followed by high fever. It almost amounts to an epidemic Mr- Winfield, a prosperous merchant of Clarksville, about fifteen years ago married a Miss Jacksou, of After living together one year they were divorced, and lived apart for fourteen years At Athens Thursday they Wefe r remarried. There is a man in Warren county a good conversationalist, worth $15,000, Who since the war has not combed his hair, nor shot a gun, nor worn a starched shirt or collar or cravat, nor had a Siikday suit of clothes, nor voted for a President, except Cleveland. Gus WickS Was arrested at Wednesday afternoon under a warrant for stealing corn in Washington c-uinty. At the coiu t house Wicker managed to escape . He was pursued by policemen an f who fired many shots at the fugitive, who was at last brought to the ground by being dangerously struck with a bullet in the left thigh. Wood Marik all, of Terrell County, is raising white rabbits. They breed eleven, times in one year. Mr. Marshall uses them on his table, and says they are as .juicy! and sweet as a spring chicken. Miss Sallie Sanders, of Lexington, has a ball of cotton thread spun by a great great-great aunt ol the editor’Of the Alvin during the Rovolfitionary WKr. The cotton from which it was spun had to be picked from the seed by hand and the spinning done on a crude flax wheel, yet it is as line and smooth as fine spool thread of the til-eseiA tfey. It is still'retnafkaWy Strong. A peddler i\ ho insulted latllSs at wick, was taken to the edge of town day % : a band of yobBg‘nien, fiogge'd and told ‘to go and sin no move. Rev. J. P Chr.vry, of Hamilton, has in I his possession a wooden dipper that the Indians made over a hundred years ago. I It has been banded down trom one »»«»'• *» *....... is-a fine .piece of work. „ Master George, -tits srin ol George W. Holmes, of Macon, (probable owes his life to the sagacity of a dog. 'On Tuesday afternoon a Texas pony he has "been frequently riding ran away. The lit tie fellow hung da mani'iffr/, and as the horse flashed down the street lie passed the house of Mr. Chauucey, Officer Holme's Yrrother-ic-law, and was recognized by Mix Ch.umcey’s setter. Tho dog evidently knew that the ItorSe was running away, and running ahead of him caught the horse’s lip in his mouth and stopped lfim. The Augusta exposition directors fcol'So confident of a big success that-a committee of the board lias been appointed to tho capita) stock to -$10(),0£0. From Xcbulnn, The editorpresnr.es upon tho good na¬ ture of Mr. J. C. Blasingame aud pub¬ lishes Below a private letter from him which his numerous friends about this place will take pleasure in peruginf : Today the second copy of the Journal is in my hand. Considering the incon¬ veniences necessarily attending the inau¬ by guration of a paper, it is unsurpassed county paper 1 have ever read. Although now hot a citizen of Ktioxville, yet I am greatly interested in her future" welfare, for among her people ’I labored earnestly for two years and a half in the' hope of benefiting her children—the future hope of the town. Knoxville still'ha? her place in'my affection, and my sincere hopes for the undimmed luster of her future ca¬ reer. From her obscurity may she rise to an enviable position among her sister towns, and may your paper be one great impetus to her advancement. I am glad that Knoxville has secured such a paper and such a citizen ax its editor. Long live The Journal and may its subscribers be numbered by the thousaud. Yours Truly, Jas. C Blasingame. Rev. T. Df/VVitt Talmage prea ched a sermon last Sunday at the‘Brooklyn Tab¬ ernacle that was, according 1 '! o our way of thinking, full of good reason and common' 'sense. He advanced some strong argu iiieiitragainst woman’s suffrage and Un¬ like, although iio said lie wanted them to vote one time. There is notliihg more dis¬ gusting to flic Southern woman than to >:ee one of her sex assuming to act in mas¬ culine capacity, and it is safe to say that the mote virtuous and enlightened women of our Southland will evei look upon this woman’s suffrage business with contempt and disgust. a -Had (' Nlacuer. 'lit 'tills case it Was nol a fellow wh„' wouldn’t pay, or anything 0 f that kind, hut a regular old Vrindte catamout. Mr. John 1. Champion had been troubled by the depredations of this cat for some time, i-o’.d undertook to trap’ it. The cat was caught in the steel trap last Saturday iiidrdiiigpandbhoWod the most evil dispo¬ sition, bill he was -kilted after so long a time. It was one of the largest of its kind. ‘ he cat was not weighed, but one of the teet brought to this -office weighed four ounces. The cat must have weighed forty pwwtdu. TWO GOOD STORES I-’OK EENJ Ofce %ail<Jing Tiew, the Other ill ftUOcl repair Knoxville Both 0'S 1 ilblic Square ill I -Jm Ij. ISrysxif e. the old reliable, j fj ih flAHKlS HOUSE, Wbbn you want afiyst class meal or a good place to slcfcp crime to the Harris Not Excelled! aftTitow jnvp-tfred to~’do Repairing of IAUaJ i if l/ypn A X OXlUHiO C [JA L’U Jte SO A ~^r:ASi>—— ib IN US'S JT M d ith Neatness-and Despatch. Gallon t-ISs Wiu{uone! h<,U 5 ° U WWU 8111 J- II- HOLT. X O TICE If you want Honest Goods at'Reasonable Prices you will find them at my store ; n my I 1 Ian (avion three miles Ncrth-east if totvu. O O 0 *6 V) 'O t'» O O O O O O O O O O O 0 o o o o o o ooo o o o o o ADVERTISE - I ‘ | I | ll WHY YOU SHOULD INSURE -—‘IN TKB- UNION UNTRALLIFE FiRST—It is a safe company. The laws regulating life insurance investments in Ohio, where it is located, are more strin¬ gent than than those of any other State. Not a dollar cSn be invested 'in railroad stocks or bonds. Second— dt is a cautions company. Its death rate is almost one-thfrd less than the xpectation Table of Mortality, and less than that of any other company in the United States. Third— several it i s an ably managed compa¬ ny. For years pas tits funds have been so invested as to yield over seven ami a half per cent, or nearly two per cent, companies. more than the The Average prodigious of the benefits East¬ ern of Compound Interest at this high rate are shared'by each policies policy-holder. Capital Fourth— Its 'has are In¬ vestments. It been demonstrated that a limited payment the Life-Rate Endow¬ ment Policy in Union Central pays better than 4 per cent, government bonds, besides furnishing the'Constant protection Fifth— it of is insurance. Liberal Com kany. Its a policies arc. ineontestible amtoion-foifelt aiilb, snd theie arcmoT’estridfions 'what¬ ever'With-regard after policy has to residence issued. or travel a W.'P. been BLASINGAME, Agent. 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