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k-f, ] JMAE c • 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” . ' _ 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. V 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. - 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.