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VOLUME I.
From IBammarks Restrict.
Hamhacks, Mar. 27, 1888. —If there is
any one feature that more definitely marks
the intelligence, industry and good taste of
a people than another, it is shown in their
good public roads. Go to any section, or
among any people, and if yon find their
public higli-ways well arranged, and kept
im first-class order yon involuntarily praise
.and admire their industry and skill. Pub¬
lic roads are an absolute necessity, good
public roads a blessing'to man and beast.
.Then why is it, Mr. Editor, that wo allow
our roads to get into, and remain in such
wretched condition ; is it because we have
no efficient road laws ? No sir, our public
road laws are good and sufficient; if they
roere only executed as they should be for a
few years‘in every district in • our county
we would be greatly and most agreeably
surprised at the. result; nor, in the mean
time, would fho labor or tax bo burden¬
some or oppressive. If the Commissioners
and overseers would see to it that there
were ten or fifteen days of well directed
work annually put upon each section ol
all the roads in the county, we would then
find that no new road laws are needed, in
that time w o could dig out, prize out, or
blast out all obstructions, give the road
bed width anil proper shape, arrange the
side ditches and drains as they should be,
cut away all trees and limbs that shade or
overhang—in short do all.the needed work
and wo we would the ». have the living
pleasure and blessing of good roads in on;
county,'and would merit the praises' in¬
stead of the curses of all goers and corners,
and instead of drea-i, as is now the case,
there would be invitation, to travel. But
if we can’t do this, the Commissioners
should not allow our friend, the A. & F.,
however dearly we love it, to completely
overrun and submerge onr roads at the
crossings, which T learn is the case at
many places on the road from Culloflen
to Knoxville.
Farmers are being drowned out this
week. We are passing through alterna¬
tions of freezes and floods that scorn for
the time to unhinge our plans. But there
was an end to Noah’s flood, and I hope
there will be to this one soon. We know
we are losing a good deal of manures by
washings aud leaching and are apprehen¬
sive of getting poor stands of corn.
Prosperity for The Journal. M.
A Boston says that when Edison first
thought of making a phonograph ho per¬
fected most of the details before even draw
ing a plan. When be had the idea well
developed he told an old German who
made models for him to make a machine
after a certain pattern. The inventor
dul'nt hint what he wanted it for, bnt
occasionally sent an order for a change or
alteration to ho made, without even look¬
ing at the model. Finally the German
took the machine to Mr. Edison, who fit¬
ted a bit of tin foil into it, turned a
crank, and spoke into the funnel the words
of that famous poem beginning “Mary,
had a little lamb,” The German looked
on as though he thought that the inventor
had gone crazy. Then Mr. Edison revers¬
ed the crank, and, iu that queer, piping
voice now so familiar, the machine repeat¬
ed the lines “Mein Gott I” Ea'd the German,
throwing up his hands, “Mein Gotti it
talks 1” . '
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Mrs. W. B. Shoemaker, of Music Fork
township, near Keysville, - Mo., has visit not
been away from home, not oven to a
meighbor, for more than twenty-five ed years the
although all tbe time she has. enjoy
best of health....
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., APRIL 0, 1888
St Was filvei" 'S'SiMsI
We see from tbe Butler Herald, of re
cent date, that “The cool winds are again
blowing o’er our bright, sun) y land, and
how fearful and cutting the blast 1”
When these touching lines were penned
tbe ethereal mind of the author looked not
upon those things which destroy the effect
intended. Indeed when those lines ap¬
peared iu print the author himself was in
the shade somewhere divested of a portion
of the usual amount of clothing, and
abusing the weather for being so hot. The
editor of the Butler Herald did not write
riiose words. A correspondent did it.
When we first embarked as an editor we
thought it the proper thing to write up the
weather, and on Mondays and Tuesdays
we would say- something like this: ‘The
.weather is beautiful, and” all nature is joy¬
ous.’ W’jjen the pjper came out on Friday
the ground would bo frozen, and people
would lose a!! patience and curse that jack
leg 'editor for being such a fqp! as to try
and work oft such a joke on an enlightened
community Explanations availed noth
ing. Tncy thought us a fool anyway.
-Sometimes we would hear that Mr. So
and-so was sick, and to make the article
more interesting we would state that Mr.
So-and-so is extremely ill, and we fear he
cannot survive tile fell disease which is
sapping his young life of manhood’s vigor.
Mr. So-and-so would bo perfectly well by
(he time our weekly came out, and mad
as blazes that anything of tbe kind had
been said about him.. He would accuse us
of lying about him, for there had been
nothing the matter with him but a bad
headache which lasted half a day.
But we soon learned some sad lessons,
md fouud out liow to manage the weather
business. We would sit down and write
weather articles for cold aud rainy, for
cold aud clear weather, and the opposite.
These we would arrange by the dozen, and
when we got nearly ready for press our
printer would choose the article that suited
/he weather at the time.
One awful hot day in September our
printer got drunk, and just as might have
been expected ot a drunken fool, he set up
one of our cut-and-dried, salted-down par¬
agraphs which stated that the beautiful
frost that morning had given vegetation a
black eye and killed the germs or malaria,
which we were glad to state. Of course
this item was condemned by some as the
weakest of weak jokes, but others charged
us with the sin of which our printer was
guilty.
That broke us up from reporting the
weather, and even at this day we are timid
indeed about mentioning the state of the
weather. We would tell a snake lie in
preference.
Pretty Bleary,
Weight sociables are the latest craze at
Yankton. They differ from the wait soci¬
ables, where yon wait, three hours • tor *e
freshments and then don’t get any. In
the former the gentlemen select their ladies
by lot. take them to the scales, weigh
them, pay a quarter ef a cent a pound in¬
to the general fund, and then escort them
to supper. At a Yankton weight sociable
the other night a dime museum fat woman
was one ot the guests, “just to help the
fun along,” She fell to the lot of an edit¬
or, and next day the unfortunate man was
Compelled to make an assignment.—
Norristown Herald, i
fijemia Prom tteres.
There is nothing unusual about our little
town this week, but sunshine. Our farm
ers are wide awake, replacing fencing
mending up broken ditches and levees, and
preparing lands for cotton. Mr. J. L,
Harrison probably takes the lead in plant
ing cotton this season. He began planting
Tnesday,
Sheriff B. A. Hartley was in our towu
Friday.
A party of young ladies of our town
went fishing Saturday and played havoc
with the “finny tribe”—caught 25 that
measured from one to two inches long. -
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Wright, of your
town, spent Friday in our ville, the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Moore.
Mr. J. J. Barnes, our mail carrier, was
compelled to stop here last Friday night
on account ot high water between this
place and Russel ville.
Miss Mattie Lou Hatcher spent Saturday
in our ville, the guest of Miss William
liich.udson. W ATCKMAN,
A 4|acst5©n ofl" Time.
The difference between standard and
meridian time is likely to cut a figure in
the courts. II. 0. Sinclair, of Bismark,
who was killed by falling off a train be¬
tween St. Paul and Brainard, had an acci¬
dent insurance policy which expired at
midnight, his death oectired five minutes
alter that hour by standard timo and 40
minutes before by meridian time, If the
artificial time be taken, he has no claim
against the company ; otherwise be has.
The policy was issued with reference to
ihe artificial time, and the period it cov¬
ered had thereby expired. It is though:
that document . . at
ivy some a expiring a
particular hour remains in force until that
hour is reached by the sun.
Asi AfiVmii«tt Story.
From the Augusta Evening Neios.
A gentleman who lias just returned from
Florida, tells the Evening News a sorrow¬
ful tale in connection with the great rail¬
way accident at Blnckshear. Captain
Shaw, who holds a municipal office in
Jacksonville, lost six children during the
winter, and a few days ago his wife and
indy remaining child, a beautiful girl of
19, went North for a change of scene and
to drive away their sorrow. When the
news of the accident reached Jacksonville
Captain Shaw knew that his wife and
daughter were on the ill fated train re
turning homo. In company with a friend
Captain Shaw journeyed to the scene of
the accident, mid upon arriving there was
horrified to find his wife and daughter
dead.
“I shall never forget,” said the friend
“the appearance of that girl, whom <td
known and whose beauty 1 had admired.
Her head had been so crushed that her
features were almost unrecognizable. 1 do
not believe that the real cause of the acci
dent will ever be known.
Some of the railroad men in that section
think that the heavy vestibule trains had
shaken tbe bridge and loosened its foun¬
dations.. • Before the-vcstibnle ears were
used a locomotive of forty-three tons was
sufficient to draw a train of cars, but the
vestibule trains require locomotives of six
ty-five tons weight, and this heavy extra
weight on the bridge, some people think,
weakened the structure.
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NUMBER II.
Nioaes -S-'roMi 5 J a43ra*sg , e.
LaG range is taking on Dew life in tbe
interest of a cotton factory. The site lias
been purchased, with a good warehouse,
and §75,000 raised to erect the factory,
It is earnestly believed that no enterprise
will benefit LaGrang? more than a cotton
tactory, and the success already attending
the enterprise almost assures the factory.
The commencements of tlio two colleges
here promise to be the best in the history
of the institutions. With Dr. H. McDon
aid, of Atlanta, to preach the sermons of
too Southern female college, and Dr. W,
P. Harrison, of Nashville, Tenn., to preach
the sermon of LaGrange female college,
something interesting may be expected.
A Voisi S»Tet! Ifiis fLJlb.
Among the stories told about Congress
nMn Allen, 0 f Mississippi, by his col
leagues is the following:
Allen was a private in the Confederate
army, and as he was bom in 1S47, he was,
of cuurse, a very young soldier when he
‘ went away to the wars,” and an old un¬
cle of his gave him f. coin which be car¬
ried for years as a pocket piece. The
ancle said;
‘‘John. I bc-liove this coin carries good
luck with it. Keep it about you all the
time, and it may even be the means some
day of saving vonr life.”
Allen put the coin away carefully in an
inside pocket, and took his leave amid the
prayers of his weeping relatives. When
he returned, his people gathered to greel
the hero, and among them was the old
uncle.
“Uncle,' 1 said John, “you remember the
coin you gave me ? Well, that coin saved
my life at Perryvilie.”
“Did it, John ; did it, indeed ?” ex¬
c!aimed t!l0 olJ inwi . ,q thlipk heaven
for prompting nie to give it to you. Tell
us all about- it, John.”
“Well, uncle," said John Alien, “at
Perryvilie that pocket piece was the only
money I had left, and—and—I bought a
drink with it."— Ex.
A Slaoclfleig- Accident.
Dralcetown, March 27.—Last Saturday
evening about 3 o’clock John William
Dial, a little boy employed st Benjamin
Morgan’s saw mill, two and one-half
ni,lcs sou,h of h ‘ re - , haJ the misfortune to
S«* llis arm tora off ^ a Mt - Tt »
thought that the belt caught Ins fingers
an,i carried him under the shaft, the space
not being largo enough between tbe shaft
and floor it tore his arm off and injured
him seriously otheiwise. Drs. Golden and ■
Hutcheson dressed the wounds and think
they will prove fatal.”
A Horrible Ucaih.
Last Friday afternoon, near Camp’s sta
t j on , \yalton county-, Frances Simmons a
young negro girl, met a horible death.
Her clothing caught while she was firing
some brush heaps, and iu two hours she :
was a corpse, The scene -of the accident
was ttio river bank, about a quarter of a -
mile from the hous of Joe Simmons, the
girl’s father. Frances was there alone at
wark, and her father heard her distressful
cries for help, tbe first he knew of any
harm haviog befallen her.
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There is to be a great gathering of Rap
tists in Washington next May. Some 2, .
oOOdelegates, representing 30,00C churches--:
have 1 ecn enrolled.
