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VOLUME I.
OUR NEIGHBORS.
Ceres, Handy Point and Hick¬
ory (drove heard from..
THE LADIES GO A-HUNTING.
Bobbing the Cut—Bore Had
■bogs—A Telegrapli School—
farming "botes
A party of ladies- and gentlemen went
but hunting last Saturday. Mr. M. J.
Moore shouldered his old “fuzee” and
t joined in the sport, but after bursting quite
a number of caps without any result, he
examined the gun aud found both 1 barrels
empty.
Mr. G. W. Wright, of Macon, is spend¬
ing a few days in our town visiting the
family of Mr.. M. J. Moore.
Ohr farmers* are busy planting
quite a number ht*ve fiuisbed planting their
uplands.
Mrs. S. L. My rick and Misses Minnie
Persons aud Pearl Myriek spent Saturday
in our villc, the guests of. Mrs. M. J,
Moore.
Mr. J. A. J. Ross delivered am address
at cur academy Monday night on the
Farmers’ Allianbe. Mr. Ross presented
many facts concerning the deleterious ef¬
fects of- the ciedit system on the farmer,
that can not bo disputed, A very good
rule would be for our farmers to raise their
own supplies. “Hog and hominy” are the
most important factors, and there is no
reason for not hnviug plenty of it.
Miss Emma Iiall has a class at this place
taking lessons in telegraphy.
Viney Evans, an old colored woman,
heaiTug tint a cat’s tail placed under the
door would frighten rats away, decided to
try Uto experiment and commenced to bob
her-cat. The little animal, not liking the
operation, used its teeth aud rmils in self
defense, inflicting a had bite and several
scratches near her,"wrist.
Preaching at this place has been changed
from II o'clock A. M. to 3 o’clock P. M.
on Saturday before 2nd Sunday in each
month: preaching on Sunday at 11 A. M,
as usual
Mr. J. H. Burks, of Troup county, was
in our vtile Monday for the purpose of or¬
ganizing a farmers’ alliance. We nope our
farmers will form a club at this place.
All other fraternities are organized and the
farmers should be also.
Bandy Point Sil’tiugs,.
BY DAVE.
Ptof. J. A. J. Ross, of Talbotton, has
Been tr.fing to form an- Alliance at this
place. He spolro to a large crow d last
Friday night, and came back on Tuesday
to organize them but, the farmers were
not out, so he failed at this place. Ho
thinks that he will he able to organize
a large club at Union Academy three
miles east of us.
Goll "(V. P. Blasingatne passed through
last Tuesday. We do not know where
the Col. had been, but know his trip
was crowned with success, as he was
smiling aud singing all to himself when
he passed.
Mr. S. B. Causey saya- he beat Mr.
Smith in killing birds. He killed: 25, at
one time and didn’t half try either. They
were black birds.
Mrs. J. W. OgRtree has been, visiting
Her mother, Mrs. M, L. Ellis.
Mr. Will Hatcher killed a hog last
**»k which was acting in such a pecu
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KNOXVILLE/ GEORGIA., MARCH 16, 188s
liar way as to make him think that it
was going mad. Ii had been bitten by
a mad dog lbat ; passed some throe weeks
ago. The dog bit many thiogs. but was
finally killed by a negro, who beat him
to death with a fence rail.
News is very scarce this week. We
will have to advertise for some if we don’t
get up more bv ne'.Jt-'weok.
Uichory Krore Happening's.
Dear Me. Editor: —Will you allow a
country bumpkin to drop you a few lines
from our little vill?
Wo are all as- busy as bees in a tar
Bucket, trying to fix up to plant onr crops
of corn and fixing up our lands for King
Cotton. Everybody, I believe, lias help
enough and some more than they ought to
have, unless they could keep out ot debt.
Smali grain is looking as flue as I ever
saw it at'this time of year, but unfortun¬
ately a very small acreage is sown, owing
to the fact that we hayc had so many
crops killed by the cold in the last few
years.
Our community is very healthy just now,
and, not wishing Dr. Smith any harm, we
wish it would stay so—but the Dr. doesn't
care anyway—because I think he ifgoiug
to try to farm this year on scientific prin¬
ciples. I walked over in his farm the
other day aud he was plowing, and you
ought to have been tbefe to have seen him
wabble with a Boy Dixie.
Mr. J. W. Dickey has the best oat crop
I have seen. It bids fair for a fine yield,
and with his 3000 pounds of meat he
slaughtered this winter he says maybe ho
can hold up his head next fall. We have
other farmers about here who know- how
ot guide the plow so as to roakt hog and
hominy. With the Macon and Alabama
railroad to help us out we would be o. k.
Messrs. Fincher and Hilsmau aro doiug
a staving busiuess near here, and when
the Rail Road begins to break dirt we in¬
tend to have a big town with Hilsmau aud
the Grove as one.
Tf you have never been in cur portion of
the county, Mr. Editor, yon should visit
us by all means and let the people see the
man who had the pluck and energy to do
what only only one other man ever did ;
that is to get up a paper for Crawford
county. You may bo sure your reward
will come.
Crawford is entitled by rotation to the
next senator. I wonder who will bain the
field ; also who will he our next repre¬
sentative ? All ye candidates come up and
let us take a look at you. C. E. W.
The Bailread,
The latest news from the track laying
force is that the rails have been laid to
Zebulon. Zebulon is 36 miles from Knox¬
ville by rail. If the weal her will con¬
tinue fair the iron gang will soon lay the
track to Knoxville. It will he here before
mos} people expect it.
Accldeut on the A. & F.
Last Friday while W, G. Crowder was
working, under the trestle over Elkins
creek hear Zebulon a heavy timber fell a
distance of about thirty feet, striking him
on the head and injuring him; fatally. H
was a wondor to those who saw the acci¬
dent that'Crowder was not killed outright.
Miss Mattie Miller, affera visit of 1 sev¬
eral weeks, with the family of Mr. J„ N.
Mathews of our town, returned to her
home in tho Cential City on. Wednesday.
QPJjRR AND CASUALTY.
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The “Lion” March Weather
jj, the Northern States,
NEWS OF ALL SORTS..
Fire at Bryan-Killed a Wo.
man—tempted Sui¬
cide, etc.
In some places in the Northern' states
itsnowed as long as forty hours, when
the recent cold weather was troubling us
down here. On a road leading from
Rochester, N. Y., a train loaded with
two hundred passengers was stopped by
snow for more than a day. A million¬
aire was the principal” cook for the party
during the time the train was weather
bound.
Too Slimy Wires.
A few months ago the wife of William
Smith Dimsdaie, of Canton, ran away with
Andrew Harper, leaving her husband and
two children, and a few weeks afterward
Mr. Dimsdaie received a letter from Cul¬
berson, N. C., signed by W. J. Harris,
stating that, she had died there. On re¬
ceipt of this letter Mr. Dimsdaie had the
proceedings for divorce, which he had filed
after his wife left him, stopped. Then he
married Miss Sarah Holcomb. Last
da v night wife No. 1 walked into the
presence of Mr. Dimsdaie and family. He
thinks of giving wife No. 2 back to her
parents and clinging to wife No. 1—until
be can procure a divorce.
Attempt at Suicide.
At Stone Mountain a good’ deal of ex¬
citement was caused Thursday morning by
the announcement of the attempt at sui¬
cide of Miss Martha Dickerson, aged 40, by
taking morphine. A physician was suvn
monsd, and vfter several hours os faithful
work, succeeded in bringing about her
recovery. It is said that bor attempt at
suicide was caused by disappointment in
a love affair with a prmninen w idower
who, on Wednesday, wedded another.
Alliance in illarion.
The Farmers’ Alliance has over GO 0
members in Marion county. Contrary to
the expectations of outsiders, the location
of the alliance store at Buena Vista has
increased the trade of,the town very ma¬
terially, and instead of doing injury to any
other merchants, promises a business
“boom” that the local trade has not known
for many a day.
SKIED FOB Rior.
I Clinch Superior Court last week a
well-to-do citizen, his two little sons and
two pretty daughters, were tried for riot.
The jpry found the father guilty aud re¬
leased the children, and the father w.a
fined $75 and costs, or nine months on
ho ebaingang .
Ai'ClDG.TEAL SUUUTIAH.
Bee Brown, son of Judge Lotm Brown,
dropped a pistol lact Sunday at the depot
at Abbeville, the nammer striking a cross
tie, fired. The ball penetrated his left an
klechiui ranged*upward and lodged a few
inches above where it entered. Dr. May
Q urd out the ball out aud reports no boues
broken.
NUMBER 8.
itut’iPT i; Bi:u.
Four of the five couvicts that escaped
■from the convict camps on the Chattanoo¬
ga Columbus and Southern railroad, have
been captured Two were caught nerr
Tallapoosa, one between Tallapoosa, and
Carrollton, and the fourth in the vicinity
of Newnan,
A VHEt'B B StOM OUl^ki.
A few days-'ago James Flicker & Bro.,
of Americus, received from China a check
on the Hong Kong and Shandai Banking
Covporation, China, for5 2 .75-, in payment
for a pair of spectacles sent by registered
letter to Chiua. The check, is payable in
New. York.
UOOD FOB BUCK.TURT.
At Rockmart the contract has been let
for the constiuction of two large two-story
brick buildings. The brick will be man
ufactured at Rockmart, the timber will be
sawed in that locality, and both buildings
wiif.be covered with slate manufactured
iuside the incorporate limits, A two-storv
sixtv-foot bank building is to be built soon.
killed a «ikl.
AtValdosta, Monday, night, Tom Al
dine, an ex-convict, and' a notorious char¬
acter, killed Tucksie Lane, a negro girl
about 15 years old. Accounts differ about
the first cause, but all agree rust it started
in rivalry, and that the negro, provokep,
struck the girl oo the head with a heavy
billet of wood. The blow was a fearful
one,.the entires skull being: sunken. The
girl fell into the file and' suflered' agony*
from the flames before death relieved her.
Aldine escaped, but at last accounts wa t
close pressed.
FOFSD DEAD,
At Crawford, Oglethorpe county, J. J'.
Burt, an old citizen of that place, was
found dead in his bed Sunday morning.
Mr. Burt had been a sufferer for some
time from a wound im his leg received
during the late war, the ball! never having
been extracted.
JACJK-SOA AVBI.k, 3SITA.
It is pretty generally understood in
Heard county that Capt. R. II Jackson will
oppose Hon. T. \V. Grimes for Congress.
Capt. Jackson is President of the State
Farmers' Alliance, and expects to receive
the support, of the farmers throughout the
district.
81TB£$j«S.A18 AUAIA.
Sunday night the store of N. B. Head,
four miles south of Bryan, was robbed
and then burned. Two sacks of flour and
three bolts of cloth were found in the
woods near by. The tracks were traced
to the house of Columbus Coleman, a negro
living on W. C. Spring's place, aud there
more of the goods were identified. Parties
wore in pursuit of the negro Monday, sev
oral times getting near enough to shoot at
hhn. The loss to Mr. Head amounts
to $700.
William-Simpson, of Rockmart, sold his
iron ore property r forty acres, to Ju hi
Crabb, of Cedarfown, for $3-.0f«h and be¬
fore the deeds were made out it was sold
for $5,000 to J. K. Barton and others*.
They will work.it..
