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VOLUME I.
IIicU®ry Grove BljippenlngSt
Hickory Grove, Ga., Mch. 19, 1888.
The farmers have organized an Alliance
r.Uthis place, with -.a-large number of mem¬
bers; will give you-fall particulars in my
next. Every one busy planting corn, in
fact near'y all uplands are planted- Very
little guano is being used in our midst this
year—all parties seem to have gotten up
the idea that one good rail-pen full of com¬
post is worth more than several tons ot
the standard guano. The compost gives a
body to the land, and guano only stimu¬
lates for the time king. Sorghum cane is
going to he very extensively planted in
our, neighborhood this year; it is one of the
best paying crops a farmer can raise. The
fodder and the heads will pay for cultiva¬
ting and grinding the cane, therefore your
syrup is clear profit. Spanish peas have
taken the place of onr old . fashion ground
pea—so much easier gathered. Otir fann¬
ers have quit the old fashioned mode of
ditching, and now terraces can be seen
instead, which is much better for it saves
onrlaud.
Master Edwin Rumph is on a visit to
his gi-and-ma’s, Mrs. M. V. Smith, of this
place.
Miss Adna Murchison and Mrs.
llambriek were visiting..in the Ville hast
week, guests of Mrs. S. A. Mathews. 4
Hon. J. T. Wellons spent the day in
our Ville to-day.
Col. J. M, Reeves passed through town
liist week,op professional 1 business.
Mr. JfThn Smitli'and sister, Mrs. T. F.
Gibson,:spout yesterday as the guests of
J. N. Smitffi
Our sch.ioHs. on a boom, 33 pupils.
Send Him a Paper on Time.
Jonesboro flews: On last Monday a
stranger stepped into J. J. Hanes’ store
and asked to be allowed to pay up his ac¬
count. Mr. Hanes did not know the man,
but upon inquiry found that he vnis one;
a schoolboy here in Jonesboro, and claims
to have bought a suit of clothes from Mr.
Hanes wnile but a boy and for wh'.i li he
hid never paid. Mr. Hanes had no ac¬
count of the clothes; in fact, the debtor
stated that the clothes had been bought
twenty-eight years ago, and' then it was
lomembered that the books in which the
aeco id been kept had been burned
by Sherman’s army during the war, but
Mr. Hanes remembered the transaction,
hut told the gentleman he could not accept
payment; but the debtor was persistent,
said that he had come some little distance
to pay the debt, with interest, and must
do so. Mr. Hanes agreed to accept the
principal, which was paid, and to-day
Uncle Josh is the proudest man you ever
saw, to know that there is a man in Geor¬
gia so honest as to insist upon paying a
debt ot so h >ng staudiug as to be utterly
worthless in the eyes ot the law.
Several large pieces of the monument
to be erected over the grave of the late
Gen. Robert Toombs have arrived at
Washington. It will be a massive and
stately shaft, and altogether a fit monu¬
ment to mark the last resting place of that
illustrious man.
A party of young people from Clark’s
mill and Ceres will meet at the residence of
Jit. J. W. Blasingame to-night and have a
musical party.
The momentous question is “When wil :
the .Spring weather come l".
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.,. MARCH 23, 1888.
Tobacco Hatsing in (scorgia.
From an exchange we learn that in the
year 1869, near the villagoof Feceville, in
Decatur county, William Davis and l'carce
Wood farmed together, raising cotton as
the principal -crop. They put five acres of
average land in tobacco, as a side crop, to
be attended to when they could not work
in the cotton crop by nason of rainy days.
Besides what was consumed by themselves
and their hands, the crop netted 4.347
pounds—863 pounds-per acre. This
sold at the farm for 30 cents a pound—
or ?l,295.01 for the whole cron—.the cost
of production being about half that neces¬
sary to produce cotton.
Seed Shipped to Europe.
Within the past few days the Mark W.
Johnson Seed Company, of Atlanta, has
sold to the Czar of Russia 200 bushels of
Cotton seed. This seed is to be used in
the promotion of the- cotton-growing: in¬
dustry of Russia’s Asiatic provinces, and
in another year Georgia seed will be bear¬
ing fruit in the regions about the Caspian
sea. The order came from M. Ruutkows
ky, technological agent of the Russian
government at tVcshington city, and the
‘held was shipped to the Russian Mice
to be by him for
‘warded to Europe.
Shot in. the foot,
Andrew Houghterliug, a young man of
Milledgevilla, met with an accident at the
Opera House in that city last Friday night.
V gun used at the shooting gallery went
off unexpectedly, the ball lodging in the
ns'ep of one of hi >. feet.
Frauds Hxpvscil.
G. D. Jackson & Co. purports to be the
name of a firm of United States mail con¬
tractors, as they call themselves. The
Second Assistant Rostmastnr-General sends
the following instructions to the postmas¬
ter at this place:
“If you have received n circular signed
G. D. Jackson & Co., United States Mai!
Contractors, inviting proposals for trans¬
porting the mails on route No. 165391 from
Macon to Knoxville, included in the mis¬
cellaneous advertisement of Feb. 1, 1888.
you will pleaso forward the same at once
to this office. This circular was wholly
unauthorized and unwarranted; and is an
impudent and arrogant interference with
ilie exclusive authority and functions of
the l’ost Office Department, and the firm
of Jackson & Co. has been so notified.
Bidders under said- advertisement must
make their offers to the department and
not to ihe said Jackson, or any other per¬
son or persons.”
The Hailruacl.
Track laying has been retarded this
week on account of first one cause and an¬
other. The bridge over Elkins Creek, a
quarter of a mile from Zebulon, not having
beeu completed put a stop to track laying
for some days. A strike has occurred
among the hands, also, we learn from the
Atlanta Journal. All will most-likely he
well in a few days with the con at i uction
force, and the track will be pushed south¬
ward.
Mr. A. M. Jackson, of Ceres, was in
town Sunday.
Mr. M. J. Moore and wife, of Ceres,
spent Sunday last in town, the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wright.
Lucky for the farmers that the supply
of guano in Macon gave out so soon.
sundy i'uint
BY DAYS.
Sandy Point, Gai, Mch. 22, 1888.
Gussie Avant comes to the front with
the biggest snake story of the season. He
killed a coach " Lip snake which meas¬
ured six and one-halt feet.
Mrs- M irion Holloman has an egg which
is quite a curiosity, in its way. It is a
good imitation of a jug, minus the handle.
The possession of a hen that would lay
such eggs would be a fortune to some folks
as there need be no lime lost in sending to
have the jug filled. It comes ready filled.
We are glad to state that Mr. S. H.
Causey, who has been sick several days,
is improving. Mr. Causey is one of onr
ino.-t prominent and enterprising citizens.
Charlie Grant is up again after a long
spell of pneumonia.
Wo are half inclined to believe that the
words spoken by the young lady in jest is
about to prove a reality, and that “Sandy
Point does need a doctor.” Was it a
prophecy 7 *
The roads are being put in good condi¬
tion for traveling. The road by Salem
deserves special mention. It is worked
bettor than we over saw it before.
Miss Aurelia ILllomon has returned
after several days.stay, with Mrs. C. J.
Avery,
Mrs. J. C. Ctil verhouse, of your town,
was down to see friends aud relatives last
Sunday.
The gardens «eom to be in a “backward”
state,
Mr. Wayne Rushing and wife, of Byron,
are up visiting relatives.
Was it Suicide?
Sunday afternoon J. S. Herringain was
at his usual place, Superintendent of a
Sunday school in the southwestern part of
Hancock. After Sunday school he re¬
turned home, but about 7 o’clock left the
house-again. and was not seen any more
that night. - Monday Morning his dead
body w-as hanging by a plow line to a tree
about three hundred yards from his resi¬
dence, It is believed that he died by his
own hand, but why lie took his life no one
can even conjecture. He was 28 years of
age, aud highly thought of by all who
know him..
Oil the Track. .
Tnr Elberton train ran off the track nine
miles from Toccoa Monday afternoon, com¬
pletely upsetting the two passenger coach¬
es and demolishing four freight cars.
Beverly Jones, negro train hand, was
seriously hurt, havibg one eye knocked
out and an arm and a rib broken. He will
recover. A drummer, whose name was
not learned, was considerably bruise^ up.
No oue else was hurt. This is the first
accident of this kind that has ever hap¬
pened on the Elberton Air Line.
A mixed Race Row, .
At Americus Monday there was some
exoitement on the streets over a difficulty
between two white men and a negro wo
man. The woman was cut in the hands,
arm and breast. The wounds are severe
but will btirdly prove fatal. The young
men are J. w. Roberts and J. W. Brooks,
from Seville. Wilcox county. They are in
jail on the charge of assault with intent to
murder. It appears that Roberts did the
cutting.
NUMBER 9.
direct Chat.
The other day while the' man of news
was out trying to learn of something new
he chanced to overhear some loud talking
at Col. Blasingame’s law office. Upon
investigation we fouud that there was no
quarrel, no fight—only, the Gol. talking
insurance. We soon got a' chance and
interviewed him thus:
“Colonel Blasingame they say that you
are the first one in Crawford county
to take an ■ agency for an insurance
company, 1 ' asked the man of news.
“1 think so,” said Col. B,
“Is your company a new one?”
“No sir It is twenty-one years old,.
and is a growing company; its assets in*
18C8 being $ 133,298 89, and in . 1888 it
reached the enormous sum of $3.228;395.
“How cau you assure the public tlrat the
company is a safe one and not liable to
break down ?”
“As a rule old line companies are as
safe as a national bank,.but be that as it
may, the headquarters of tins company
are in Cincinnati, and the laws of Ohio
allow insurance companies to invest only
in stable securities. And then, most of
onr business being done in the West, where
investments seek money and we can be -
choice about the loans cur • company
make3.’'
“ What per cent cldcs vour company re¬
alize on its investments ~t"
“Neearly 8 per cent, compound on the
very best gilt edged securities, such as
first mortgages on real estate.”
“Everybody Knows that the Equitable
and New York Life are 1 strong compa¬
nies; then how can you -compete with
them ? Tin—ir investments are of a better
class than yours are they not ? ’
“We can get policies where they would
fail, because our rates are lower than those
of most companies, and the dividends paid
policy holders are greatei.”
“How can you show your dividends to
be greater ?”
“New York companies are restricted it:
their investments by law, and are not al¬
lowed to invest outside of a radius of fifty
miles of the city of New York where there
are hundreds of millions of dollars seeking .
investments. Their rates of interest are
very low, and they are forced- to loan
money on fluctuating securities. During
the last eleven years- we have received
from interest alone $1,480,839. During
ilie same period paid out for death claims
§1,047,127 leaving the handsome sum of
$392,000 to he shared dy policy holders.”
“You claim to write better policies than
most companies. How is that ?”
“Wo write policies on the limitel an¬
nual payment, life rate endowment plan.
The number of annual premiums is limited,
and the money may be drawn on the pol- -
icy at a fixed time. On this plan you do •
not have ts die to win. Arrangements are
being made whereby our company can
make investments in real estate in Georgia, .
which will save the borrower a great deal
of the commission money he pays to the •
loan companies-”
“Do you really believa your company is
better tham many other companies which,
everybody knows to be good?”
“Yes I believe our company is the grand¬
est on earth. She is vigorous, wide awake
and growing-/’
After this little interview the s.-ril e 1 * • -
catne convinced that the Union Gent > at is
a good company, and that Mr. Ulasin
game knew w hat he was-talking ah. u*. .
and wo hastened to pn-t- thu matter, im.y
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