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ALL 0V1R GEORGIA.
A chair factory with a capital 6f $(5,000
>8 to be started at Rome. An establish-:
mem for the manufacture of barrels wil|
also be located there soon.
E. A. Tondce has assumed the manage
ment and control of the Ellavilie Enter
'drise.
The State convention of the Baptist
Church will meet in Brunswick on the 19th
of April.
At Albany, Tuesday, C. Van Gundell
'was shot in the leg while snipe hunting.'
He walked across the summit of a hill just
as a friend beneath him fired a volley.
The entire charge was imbtdded in bis
dimb. -
At Harmony Grove Monday Dilmus
Nix s little O-year-oH hoy lost three
bis lingers. He was playing about a feed
cutter while in motion and thoughtlessly
placed his hands in the cutter. His
ond, third and fourth fingers were cut en¬
tirely off.
•Rome is making efforts to get up a per¬
manent exposition for that city and Floyd
county.
Mm. Lit Davis, of Albany, made an nn~
Successful attempt tc commit suicide So -
iuday. Sickness in her -family and finan¬
cial reverses prompted the attempt.
The Tiubot county organization of the
Farmers’ A’llifence is said lo consist of 460
members.
A young farmer of Mitchell county, ft r.
Ransom Wingate, living in the western
part of the county, running four plows,
sold on Saturday last 800 bushels of corn.
D. C. Fitch has bought the steamer
Mary Jeter and will fit her up with ma
ehincry for sawing barrel headings, etc., at
conveitut points on tne Ocmulgcc.
Henry comity is coming to the front as
-a stone-producing section. The quarries
near Stockbridge are being operated by a
man who has means, mid who, will soon
have several hundred bands engaged.
Amongthe improvements-of Sewancets
a broom factory recently established by
David P. Brandon.
At Macon Baer Drown will 6ue llie
Western Union Telegraph Company for
its failure to deliver a telegram at Colum¬
bus which would have resulted in Levy,
the cormtist, playing under Brown’s man¬
agement at Maeon.
T. A. Commander, of Terrell county,
lias about 200 melon plants already up
with five or six leaves each. This looks
as though Mr. Commander will get the
first shipment of melons to t'he Northern
markets this season.
'Several large mill men were in Macon
Thursday cct f riing with President Sparks,
of the Georgia Southern, for sites on that
road. There will be a mil! every five miles
on the road between Maeon and Valdosta.
James’Spence, of Dawson, llie old negro
v, ho had his leg broken by being run over
I.y a six-mule load of guano, dud last week
from ihe injuries a few days after the am¬
putation of ihe member was performed.
The altitude of Buena Vista being great¬
er than the surrounding country, the Cen¬
tral railroad surveying corps find it
•diffieultoio make the approach from any
direction, and at present are using a third
Hire.
Tbe Cuthbcrt Appeal thinks that there
is no reason why the Male College at that
place should not receive from the trustees
of the State University its shave of the
“lnnd scrip fund.”
A farmhouse on C. H. Strong’s place,
eight miles from Athens, on the Air Line
railroa J, was burned at 9 o’clock Wednes¬
day night. Mr. George S. Adams lost
everjutiilng he possessed.
A tew weeks ago Mr. Asbury’s store, at
Belton was burglarized. The negro was
t aught in Atlanta one day last week and
was takeu to Gainsvillc Wednesday, tried
and convicted Thursday, and sentenced on
Friday to a term of ten years.
The saw milts on St. Simons are the
largest in the world and are a very interes¬
ting sight. Millions of feet of timber are
rafted down the Altamaha river and cut up
into lumber on St. Simons. Vessels are
loaded with lumber there for all parts of
(he earth.
A horrible 1 tale of debauchery and CYime
comes from Bluffton in which a white wo¬
man and a negro were concerned. The
negro, Aaron Dickey, was terribly whipped
by the indignant people of the community
and afterward died'from the effects of the;
whipping.
At Dawson an old negro, Jim Spence/
while driving home a <six-mule (earn on
Saturday last, was thrown from his mule
and had one of his legs run over by the
wagon, which was loaded with guano.
His leg was so badly crushed as to necessi¬
tate amputation.
A negro-house on the .planta tion of M.
W. Champion, near Smyrna, caught fire a
day or two ago and, with its contents, was
entirely destroyed. In the house at the
time of the five were two small children.
They wire also burned, all efforts to save
them being futile.
Old Frederica, on St. Simons Island,
was at one time the largest town in Geor¬
gia. It was established as an outpost
against the Spaniards of Florida by Gen.
Oglethorpe, but the location was so ad¬
vantageous for trade that the place-becamc
a flourishing town.
A negro boy was accidentally killed
while knocking down cotton stalks on Col.
J. S. Reid’s plantation, near Madison, a
few days ago. The boy knocking down
stalks in the next row let the slick he was
wieldiug slip out of his hand, and, striking
his companion, killed him..
The Presbyterians ot Atlanta are dis¬
missing among themselves various plans
for establishing in that city a Presbyterian
college. The idea seams to be to establish
at Atlanta a Presbyterian university' for
the South of swell high character as to at¬
tract patronage from ether states.
A difficulty occurred at Sutton’s bar
room near boford, Saturday night, in which
William Hazel and J. Bvrd wore severely
cut by J. W. Cain. Cain was knocked
«—so.™, n, ™„ s
Hazel and Byrd, whom he was friendly
with The physicians lhink that Byrd
can’t live.
George \V. Cararfine, who lived two and
one-half miles from tlurkesville, died
Wednesday by his own hand. He took
strychnine. Being involved in debt is the
only cause that can bo surmised. He has
had a case or two continually in court for
the past forty years, and now at the age of
70, lays all his litigation over.
The mysterious appearance 1 of an mi
known , boy , 8 _ or 10 years old ,, in . „ the cliffs ....
around Mount Alto, about six miles down
the the rood toosa-nvci, river near neai t-V r.»e Rixc.y Rixov firm farm, is is
creating considerable excitement in
neighborhood. Tlie lad, ’ ragged ° as a bog- °
by hunter, but almost .
gar was seen a tin
mediately disappeared and cannot be found,
A few days ago a son of S. A. Sheffield,
•a tenant on D. Augustus Burch’s farm, in
the northern part L of Dodge county, eight
lines . from Eastman, „ , ploughed , , ,
or nine up
a Spanish coin stamp 162 years old. It is
believed to have been buried by counter
feiters in the days when Spanish money
was : in n circu.ation r in this tins mrt part of oi the the
coun ry.
As Miss Ma-mie Braim was riding on
hni-K-lmrk hois haca in in Brunswick Brunswick o-ia o.ie (lav day last last
week, a team of mules running away came
by her. The reckless voung lady reached
ROBERT COLEMAN BOLIVER II. RAY ■JOHN N. BIRCH
COLEMAN BAX & CO.,
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Macon, - - - - Georgia,
Dealers in Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Kentucky Mules
and Fertilizers. The following brand of fertilizers on hand’:
NAVASSA ACID. NAVASSA COTTON FERTIL¬
IZER, GEORGIA PACIFIC GUANO.
We keep a supply of the above goods at Fort Valley for the
convenience of our Crawford county customers, which can be
had on application te ns.
out and grasped the bit on oue of the mules
and held on until the driver could get to
them, when her saddle turned end site
dropped under the mules, Lift Strange to
say she escaped hulnivt.
About Chrictmas Me Hampton Smith
opened a store at Alpharetta and cm
ployed Bud Smith, his son, to cleft for
him. Bud got on a spree a few days ago
and his father discharged him On Tups
d . ol last week Lud , got another ,
i\ on spree,
and going into the store where his father
was, took a shot guu and shot the old
gentleman in ‘the breast. The old man
may die.
Crawford Lindsey, of Dooly county, who
lives on the place belonging to bis cousin,
Jim Lindsey, slipped a team cot of his
cousin’s stable and went to Hawkinsville
some days ago and got drunk. On re¬
turning Jim Lindsay said something to
Crawford about abusing bis mules which
made him very angry. Next morning he
was half drunk again, and when Jim
Lindsey came near where ho was at work
he pulled out a pistol and shot -him.
April Sheriff’s Sales.
“J //J.EORGIA, sold before Crawford the court County: house door Will be in
the town of Knoxville, said county, on
the first Tuesday in April next within
the legal hours of sale the Whole following de¬
scribed .property, to wit: lots of
land numbers forty-five and fifty-one
and the North half of lot number roven
ty-nine iu the Seventh district of said
county, making iu the aggregate five
hundred six and one-fourth acres, more
Superior hourt of said county—one in fa
vor of •]• O. Skellie vs. I,. T. Lee, and
one i n f.i v 01 ' of il.,C- Harris against said
LT
Also at the same time and place lots of
land numbers seventy-eight and eigbty
tliree in the Seventh district of said
county, containing in the aggregate four
hundred and live acres, more or less,
levied on as the property of E. S. l.ee to
satisfy a fi fa 4 sued from the Superior
Court of said county in favor of Sterling
Neil against L. T. and E. S. Lee:
Also at the same time and place lot of
land number one hundred in the Sixth
district of said county, containing two
hundred two and a halt acres,' more or
less, levied on as the property of J. W. 17
Gurr. to satisfy a h fa issued from the
Superior Court of said county in favor of
J- M. Poole against said J. W. Gurr :
Also at the same time and place the
f<)llowi „ g described property, to wit:
Sixty bushels of corn, more pounds or less, in
U'e shin-.k, five lmndrea of fod
der, more or less, and six bushels of
peaS; levied on as the property of E. W.
Wiggins under and by virtue of a fi fa
issued from the Gouty. Court of said
% wf 1 IIat ° her agaiust
‘ AJso'at. Wiggins ;
the same time and place one
saw mill and fixtures, one belt, one log
. art and lot of land number sixty-six county and in
tUe seventh district of said
one-fourth interest in two hundred and
‘nehundml ninety-two, mid ninetyTnTt in the Seventh onUhmidryd district
and aggregate
of said eotnty, making in the
twQ hundred and fifty-five and one-half
acres, more ot less, leviod on as the prop¬
erty of William Garter to satisfy of a ti said fa
issued from tiie Superior Gourt H.
county J in favor of James
[us t saicl vvilUam barter. HARTLEY,
B. A.
*’eby. 27th 1888. Sheriff.
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town. Good Coffee 25e. Keresinc 20c.
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