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TOWN AND COUNTY. What the People are Doing and Talking About. THE TIMES IN CRAWFORD. Society Sews und Meifthbor hootl Solcs,-Pers»naI Mention. Read Sheriff’s sales for April. The school now numbers about fifty pu¬ pils, and the number is increasing steadily. A new sigu for the post office at this place now shines forth in largo new letters. The average gardener now feeleth like Kicking himself because he planted so early. Mr Milton Moore and wife, of Ceres, spent Sunday iu town, the guests of Mr. F II. Wright. Mrs. Charlie Spillers, of Macon, spent a few days here the first of the week visiting relatives. Miss Leila Webb, of tbe western portion of the county, is visiting tbe family of Mr. J, \Y. Blasingame. Mr. Howard Persons, of near Culloden, spent Sunday in town, visiting the family of Col. R. D. Smith. Pastures are being fenced up, and the in¬ dications are that most of the farmers near town will force the operation of the stock law. If the weather admits of it the street force will put the’walks and drains about the public square in good condition on the morrow, Messrs. James Spillers, F. II. Wright W. P. Blasingame and others have given free land for now streets, and they will be opened iu a few days. We have added the names of several Texas people to our subscription list this week, and a lady in Brooklyn, N, Y,, sends us a dollar for the paper also. Hon. J, Northrop Smith, of’ Hickory Grove, paid us a pleasant call the first of week. Dr. Smith wishes The Journal well, and is one of Its best patrons. In a difficulty between two negroes at Visclir’s railroad camp between this place and Fort Valley, on Wednesday, a negro was badly cut in the abdomen with a knife. Mr. F. II. Wright was elected County Treasurer ou the 24th, ult. There having been no opposition, and the weather at thal time being unfavorable, a very small vote was polled. Mr. A. J. McAfee, of near Culloden, was in town Wednesday looking after business. Mr. McAfee runs a first class dairy and stock farm in this county near Culloden, and is making a success of the business. Misses Alpha McManus and Lillie Blas¬ ingame wish to extend thanks to Mr. Boliver H. Ray for ins handsome donation to the Parsonage at this place. If every¬ body had the liberality of Mr. Ray our parsonage would bo more comfortable. f The public square around the court¬ house will be worked tomorrow. The cit¬ izens raised the money for the work by gratuitous subscription. Our citizens need no persuasion in order to raised money to improve the town, but give freely to any step of this kind. Mr. Frank Hudson, of Thomasville, made a business trip over to our town the first ot the week. Mr. H. was raised in this county and has not been hero before in thirty years. lie believes we are going to have a good business town after the rail road isput through . At (he meeting Tuesday night the fol¬ lowing gentlemen joined the Citizens Union „• C N Pierce, A P Spillors, M T Perry, J. T Andrews. Moses Mathews, G W Hort man. Thero are thirty members of tbe Union, and keep open doors for all wbo wish to attend the meetings. Married-Ill athcws-J o ties. On Tuesday, the 28th, Mr. M. C.Math¬ ews aDd Miss Josie Jones were married at the residence of the bride’s mother uine miles north-west of Macon. An elegant reception was given on the following day by Mr, J. N. Mathews, father of the groom, at his residence in Knoxville. The Lecture Last Kisrlit, Mr. J, A. J. Ross, of Fort Valley, deliv¬ ered a lecture last night at the court house to the farmersof this vicinity, Tbe leet are was delivered for the purpose of organ¬ izing a farmers alliance. Crawlord county farmers do not seem to be in any hurry to organize an Alliance, but an organization of the kind may bo effected yet. I>itl You liver-! Probably the best cow in Georgia is owned by Mr. John Clark of this county. The animal will not weigh much, if any. more than 200 pounds, and her milk uddei is a perfect sight, She gave more than four gallons of milk.at one.milking before she had her first calf. The heifer is only a iittle over two years old, and with careful treatment may beat the record of all the blooded stock. Mr. Clark says the cow is of common scrub stock.. Deputy Sheriff Culverhousc, who fur¬ nishes us with the above facts, says lie never saw anything to equal the heifer as a milker I^i’ogress in the Siuh. A search over the Union for a.small sec¬ tion of country just suited in every way to the growth of most all the crops raised in this country would be useless if the man who had undertaken it should come first to the 6th district in this comity. The soil is as fertile as a farmer would have it, and admits of the use of farm ma¬ chinery, since the land is level and easily worked. There is no town in the Gth, but the few people living near Hartley’s store want the conveniences of a town, and are preparing to have some accommodations seldom enjoyed by country people. The latest step towards the conveniences mentioned is a new telegraph line from Taylor’s cross roads to Byron. The line is being put up, and probably by this tim< next week the instrments will have been put in at each end of the line and will be conveying the news between neighbors by lightning. The line is nearly seven miles long. A daily mail will also be another feature that will he worth a good deal. Correction. mi:, editor: The report has gone out and been noised abroad throughout tho larger portion of the county that the citizens of Knoxville have bell a meeting for the purpose of trying to influence tire Commissioners ol Roads and Revenue for Crawford county to appropriate one thousand dollars of the funds iu the County Treasury, to bo used in the improvement of the public road from tbe town of Knoxville to tho depot site i n the lino of the A. & F. R. Ii., near the residence of Mr. Jas N. Mathews. The citizens of the town have never, at any time, held any such meeting for any such purpose, and the circulation of re¬ ports of this character is calculated to reflect wrongfully upon them. Moreover, the people of the town are not mendicauts, neither do they belong to any secret or¬ ganization. Meetings have been, and will continue to he, held for the purpose ol devising and putting into operation plans for the upbuilding of our town ; and, the same time, for tho advancement of interests which arc common to a ll people of the county, I. H. WEIGHT, KNOXVILLE, - GEORGIA DEALER IX STAPLE m FANCY DRY GOODSl HARDWARE. ETC. I keep an assortment of General Merchandise, and try to sir everybody both in quality of goods and in prices. I have no on hand a lot of Fbesii Garden Seeds, also a variety of Farm Tools of the best makes which I sell cheap. Call on me. F. H. WEIGHT, Knoxville, Ga. The meetings are held with open doe and all who fee! so disposed, whether in out of Knoxville, are cordially invited attend and participate in the proceedin Those who do attend and therefore km what is said and done, are prepared who do not attend should not reports upon @iere hearsay that are damaging alike to the people of the town and all others iu the county. Knoxville, <; o sn i Et ! The Spring poets are not allowed to monopolize the whole business for the editor is in the ring: Oh! the fly, The rhetorical fly; The student of composition • Drat the fly ! The punctuating fly, We invite him off to perdition. Ho the wall, And that isn’t a! i,' He: on your clothing and face; He :V: and he Aggers On white folks and niggers And is cussed by the whole human race. The farmers of the Oak Mouta,in Alli¬ ance in Garroll county have resolved that they will not go in debt this year. A number of them say they will not purchase a single article unless they are able to pay cash for the same. Many of them will Dot use a pound of commercial fertilizers. William Robb, of Philadelphia, has sold to the Teal & Adams Gold Mining Com¬ pany one lot of land in Lumpkin comity, the consideration for which is §250,000. Tiic Western Cyclone. A cyclone at Mount Vernon, Ills., Feb. 20, destroyed three hundred houses, placing 1,500 people without homes' About thirty persons were killed by falling walls and others 3re badly wounded. The town was almost destroyed by the wind, The same storm visited New Haven. Ky., where it blew down a bridge which cost $7,500, but the track of it not being through the business part of town, very little damage was done. A mob in Illinois hung a negro the other day. The republicans will not have much to say about the affair, but will coutinuoto poiut the finger at the South as a heathen clime /ARDIN U ARY’S Office, Crawford Uoun t”, Georgia—Whereas appointed the apprais¬ and ers duly to White set apart assign to Mrs. Elizabeth a year’s support, and furniture a sufficiency out of of household the estate and kitchen husband, William 15, of her deceased White, have made their return : This! is therefore to cite and admonish all par¬ ties at interest to show cause if any they can on the first Monday said in April should next, by 10 o’clock a. m. why return not be made the judgment of the Court. Witness my hand and official signature this March 1S t„188| aL Ordinary.. O.P. WRIGHT, lawyer, KNOXVILLE, , . . . . GEORGIA Office iri the Court House. fl) 2 W, P. BLASIHGAME, Attorney at Law, KNOXVILLE, OEor.G entrusted Prompt attention given to all basin to his care. BE,. J. W, JONES, KNOXVILLE, - - - - GEORGE Calls promptly attended day and nig'. GEO. L. SAWYER, Physicfanp^ Surgeo KNOXVILLE, GA ., Patronage respectfully solicited, fill The Knoxville Brig Sts: Is the place where you can always fh j Bsliablo Goods. Besides Drugs and Medicines I 1: GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, NOTIO. SHOES, HATS &c. Whenever you come to town come to J. W. BLASINGAME MONEY TO LOIN I am prepared to loan mor on improved' farms to 1 amount of $200 and upwa: • on most liberal terms. I r resent the Georgia Loan <fc Tr Co. <°f Amerieur, Ga., a ejx tered institution of the St: —5 will guarantee that our co missions are at least from t to three per cent cheaper tl that of any otherompany. P merits can be made at any ti: and the loan may be taken whenever desired. Quit warehouse and try us. We cheaper and give you more erty, and we don’t want y land. The warehouses are i ting it. W alter P. Blasing. FOR SALE -AT THIS OFFIC