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TOWN AND COUNTY.
What the People are Doing and
Talking About.
THE TIMES IN CRAWFORD.
The population.,of.. Crawford ;county is
8,700.
The election for County Trersurer. comes
00 to-day.
There is very little passing about, aud
news is hard to get. •
The bursting blossoms scent the air—
guano docs the same...
Our subscription . list, is, growing fast.
Hurrah for Crawford 1
Mr. Adam llortman.is recovering from
his recent severe attack,
Mr. J. W, Jack is on the United States
jury at Macon this week.
Mr. B. LeSueur is still eqnfined to. the
house with a severe cough.
Mr. W. II. Andrews, of Macon, came
down to see the boys{2) Sunday.
Mr. W. T. Trader, of Fort Valley, was
in town a few days ago on business.
Knoxville needs a town council worse
than anything else, unless.it is capital.
The condition of a road has a great deal
to do with the value of the lajids near it.
Everything may he considered* qijiet
about here. Not a mad clog in a week’s
time.
Mr. J. W. Jack, accompanied by his
daughter, Miss Lena, is spending.the week
in Macon.
The ladies have succeeded in raising
enough money to buy a small organ for
the church.
Miss Emma Andrews, after a protracted
visit in the Central City, returned home
last Sunday.
There is very little sickness about town,
in fact there is never very much sicKness
in Crawford county.
Mr. Will Harris, of Macon, was here
the first of the week on a short visit among
Kin folks and friends.
Mv Pole Andrews came in town yester¬
day with a large string of mullet that he
taught the night before.
The roads, are simply terrible, and are
not calculated to make a stranger have, a
favorable opinion of this section.
The school at Knoxville is increasing in
number of pupils, there being 48 in at¬
tendance, Mr. Finney is said bo an ex¬
cellent instructor.
Miss W illie Richardson and her mother,
after a visit of some length with the family
.4 Mr. F. H. Wright, have returned to
their home at Ceres.
Mr. L. L. Bryant has moved his stock
<-f goods to his farm, hut will return to
trwn next fall and will prepare for a larger
business, so we are told.
There is a report being circulated that
the buzzards all over the county are going
mad, as they preyed on the carcasses of the
rahid dogs that were killed.
Every fai nter .in the county shou’d plant
at least half an acre in Spanish ground
peas. There is no better payiug crop than
this and none easier to make.
It is said that forty-two miles of track
have been laid on the Atlanta and Florida
railroad. The distance to be laid to reach
Knoxville is about fifty miles, ...
Col. O. P.iWright has .heen, of consider*
able .assistance to. the Editor in working up
business for the paper,; and he has our
thinks for his kindness. The Journal,
dogs not lack for friends, anyway.
Captain Jim Taylor stopped over in
town a short while the first of the week on
hi3 way. from .the 6th district to Culloden
and crackcd * few i okcs with tbe bo >' s '
Very few farmers are. seen going to Ma¬
con these days for. plantation supplies.
Are the people getting more prosperous or
are they waiting until later, to make the
trip ?
If the weathea gets any worse we will
mention it in the loeal column, but unless
we have rain or snow or hail you need not
expect to be bored with that sort of reading
matter..^
it is said that Mr. John I. Champion
has a patch of turnips that will average
eight poun Is a-piece. Parties who have
seen the patch say jt is.the,best they have
ever seen.
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Several road crossings in this county
where the railroad work has been done are
left in a bad, condition. They arc not only
inconvenient to pass over but .some of them
arc daugerous. places’
There .are .plenty of timber and suitable
soil about Kpoxville to furnish all the
lumber, and brick needed to build a city,
and in fact, with more oeople rtu and mom
. have of the i best . towns .
money, we can one
in Georgia '
Th? farmers ail over, the state are, ba
coming more economical every, day, and if
the season*.are good during the summer
and fall there will be more hog and homi¬
ny in this part of the country than has
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been he.re in,along time.
A.paperjn Southern Georgia is boasting
of a new subscriber who is 50 years old
and who never took a paper before in his
life, That’s pothjng. There.is.a .man in
thjs-county who. never paid for a paper, .in
his Iiie and he ,is reading this, paragraph
right, now...
Messrs. H. T. Fitzpatrick ’ and R.
Saufprd, both from this county, but. now
engaged in business in Macon, .write words
of encouragement to the Journal and sub¬
scribe also for the paper. These g-ntle
men are from good old families in this
county and are calculated, to, succeed in
business anywhere.
Mr. B., II, Ray, member of the live com¬
mission firm ,.of Coleman Ray & Co., of
Macon,, was in town the first of the week
taking orders for guano and other goods.
Hr, Ray is an energetic merchant, aud his
advertisement in this paper, as well as
other things, proves him to be.a gentleman
of good judgment,...
Some of the Knoxyilla boys who wanted
to attend the party at Mr. It. Webb's last
Friday night got lost, and after driving
around in the neighborhood of the river a
good portion of the night they finally
readied the party, which, as. good luck
would have it had not broken up. They
looked.a little bit “grinned” next morning.
• XB.o’a After TJuat
Mr. Julius McGee, of Fairplay, has re¬
cently been,very much exercised in mind—
and body too, it seems—on account of
ttoainformn reoeived by him in some way
that a chest of gold is buried somewhere
in that vicinity. With an eye to business,
and having, in common with all mankind,
a heart overflowing with love for that
precious meta', he has heen exerting, him¬
self quite vigorously in a search for (he
hidden treasure. He has been told that
just before this box of wealth was stowed
away in its hiding place, one of tli6 strong¬
est inen in all the county failed in his efforts
to raise one end of the box from the ground,
aud it is upon yiis statement, that he bases
his calculations as to the amount of gold
it, contains. It ; may yet be his good
fortune to find it, but from all accounts
we fear that the hardest thing for him to
do about now is to think of some way of
locating the chest with which be has not
already experimented. Not only has he
been doing faithful servica with A
f. h. wBieni mm r
KXOX VILLE, - - - GEORGIA.
DEALER IN
Fit! aid Family Groceries J
STAPLE m FANCY DRY. GOODS,
HARDWARE. ETC.
1 W assortment of General Merchandise, Pnd try to suit
©verybody both. of in FrESII quality oi goods SEEDS, and in prices. I have now .
on hand a lot GARDEN also a variety of
Ffll’IH ': EBT'.OOlsss ■
0 f the best makes which I sell cheap. Gall on me.
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I F, H, WRIGHT; Knoxville, Ga.
iron spike, perforating the earth promiscu
f sl >' in h «P e :f ff kin * • tho t0 P of the
, but it sa.d that he has-tested every
conceivable thing m the way.of-fortune
telhng-with coffee grounds, the palm ol
his band, ’ etc. - A’company r of Gypsies,
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fortune tellers they are called, ,, , .passed
through Knoxville a week or two ago, and
though ,we knew nothing of their
tion at that time it isiesmy- to understand
now that they were on their, way, to fill a
business engagement with Mr. Jifiius -Mc¬
Gee. But their efforts were fruitless, and
they departed, leaving with him a good
luck present to-plats*-under his pillow at
night, which they assured hira . wonld lead
him in his dreams to the long .sought
treasure*
Use or Aged Citizens.
Mr- W. J. Dent faeisbes us. with a list of
names.of,old men in the county, and the
figures will serve to show soroohing about
the .healthfulness of our climate, Charles
Ya.nn is 99 years old, Daniel Hutto 90, EI
dred Wilder 88, Pilil'- N. Schofield 84, Wil¬
liam Wells 91 years old ; lived in the coun¬
ty 53 years. Ezekiel Mathews -82, Jeff
Sanders has lived in the county 42: years
and is 80- Larkin Ross has been in the
-county 51 years and- is 80. James Hartley
has lived in the county 55 years and is 78
years old. James.Taylor has lived in the
county 64 years and is 78, L. W. Hicks
has lived in the. county.65 years and is 75.
C. H, Walker has been a resident of the
county 52.years and is 75. Wm Wilder
is 75.. Dred Knight has lived in Crawford
60 years and is 75: Samuel Lowe 73
.
James Sandcfnr has lived in Crawford 63
years and is 73. T. J. Hand 73. A. H.
Hortman 70,’ J. J. Clark 70, C. H. Smith
lias lived in the county 61 } ears and is 66,
Jake Turner has lived in-the county 57 and
is 67 and Russell Aultman is 74.
Tite J.onrnal’s Agf.eaissj
Parties living near Ceres or Sandy Point
who ,wish to subscribe for this paper and
do not find it convenient to send the
money to Knoxville, can hand the sub¬
scription money to Mr. Addiel M. Jack
eon at Ceres, or to Miss Alpha McManus
at Sandy Point. Either of them will re¬
ceipt for cash or make application for
advertising space.
“Right giuart” Oollaid;
Cn the place of James Blood worth, near
town, is something ; which resembles a cab¬
bage palmetto tree, but it is nothing more
nor less than a collard plant,- A few days
ago the plant began to run up to seed, and
is now about-eight and a half feet high.
The plant was over seven feet high before
it began,to run to seed,-and the. stalk it¬
self is about .the height of a tall, man, and
measures nine inches in, circumference. .
Civil engineer Mable is in town and
that, he is just from the track laying
’ Cor p S «nd that the work, is being rapidly
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O.P. WRIGHT,
i LAWYER,
KNOXVILLE,;. - - - - -GEOBCIA.
Office in the Court.IIouse ‘ f b 27
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W. P. BLASIHGAME,.
. ! Attorney at Law
KNOXVILLE, . — GEORGIA.
entrusted Trompt attention given to all business *
to liis eare. jy 27
DR. J. W. JONES
KNOXVILLE;’ - - - - GEORGIA
Calls promptly attended dayzand night.
GEO. l. sawyer;.
Physician^ surgeon 9 .'<*
KNOXVILLE, GA., .
Patronage respectfully solicited.,. -fUv'
The Knoxville Drag Store'
Is the place where you can always find
Reliable Goods.
Besides -DrngB and Medicines I keep ,
GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS,
SHOES, HATS &c.
Whenever you comedo town come to see
J. W. BLASINGAME.
MONEY TO LOAN!
.
I am-prepared to loan money
on improved farms to the
amount of $200 and upwaids ■
on most liberal terms. I rep¬
resent the Georgia Loan & Trust
Co, <°f. Amerieu;, Ga., a char¬
tered institution of, the-State.
T will guarantee that our com¬
missions are at least from two .
to three per cent cheaper than -
that of any other ompany. Pay¬
ments can be. made at any time,
and. the loan may be taken up
whenever desired. Quit the
warehouse and try us. We are
cheaper and give you more lib¬
erty, and we don’t want your -
land. The warehouses are get¬
ting it. Walter P. Blasingame .
MBIT UTIL i&i, ..
FOR SALE
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