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n 8 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 print. ,