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THE JOURNAL,
KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO. GA.
PUBLISHED EVER! FRIDAY BY
PERCY V. IIOWELL.
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'rite MHiilri.
The mail from Knoxville to Fort Valley
I raves daily, except Sunday.
The mail for l’rattsburg leaves on Tues¬
day, Thursday and Saturday.
The mail for Forsyth leaves on Tuesday
and Friday. Macon, with hour lay
The mail for 12
over at Warrior, leaves cu Meuday and
Thursday.
It is very strong argument for protec¬
tion to call the weekly press ragtag aud
bobtail. Tbo galled jade doth wince, as
it were.
The 9th of May is the day appointed to
elect delegates to represent Georgia in the
presidential convention to be held in St.
Louis Juno 5th.
It will suon be, time to go fishing. The
boys don’t like the idea of having to pay
the freight on it ; but as Smithville is a
dry town, it can’t be helped.— Smithville
Kcics.
Wilkins is trying io run through his
bill to have shin plaster currency issued
again. This would be handy to pay- sub¬
scriptions with from a distance. Rush her
through, Wilkins!
A labor organ has an article headed
- 'What is Money ?” If the editor isn’t any
better acquainted with it than the majority
of newspaper men, he will have to give a
second handed answer to his own question.
The Fort Valley Mirror now comes
to us in new dress, audit is becoming too.
nt is unusually spicy, and its editorial col
mas contained in-the last issue some <>!
the soundest tariff doctrine a true democrat
ever read.
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Macon 1 elegraph published the
whole of Senator Colquitt’s speech on the
tariff. Over nineteen columns of that
the- sp-Jsjndid best reading paper were matter filled that with has appeared some of
therein iu a long time; and that is saying
.n good deal.
Taken all in ail the general opinion
seems to be that Mr. Mill’s tariff bill is a
long step in the direction of tariff reform.
If it makes free wool, it simply means that
Mr. Mills does not ask any other section to
d > a thing his own constituency is not
willing to do.
Youno ladies too %fteu .marry voting
men vhomHbcy scarcely know and whose
records arc under suspicion. Here is a
case iu question: A young lady of Park¬
ersburg, W. Ya., eloped this week with a
■young man who bad been banging around
the town for a few months and about whom
nobody knew anything. While the girl’s
parents were at the theatre, the couple took
rthe train for another State. An investi¬
gation showed that the young man had left
his board hill unpaid, while the police
ithink he is wanted.elsewhere for an offense
lie has committed against the law. Does
; any one suppose that this yonug lady's
(hopes of a happy married .life will he re-
TARIFF REFORM.
On the - subject ot tariff reduction an
exchange says:
“But suppose it were true that the rev¬
enue would not be reduced by tariff reduc¬
tion. It would do a vastly greater good.
It would reduce the tax burdens of the
people. This is what all-real patriots aim
to accomplish,
The plan proposed by the republicans
is to take as much as possible from the
people ana let the government get as little
as possible. The plan proposed by the
democrats is to get the revenues for the
government at the least possible cost to the
people. Is there a man in the world so
dull as to fail to see which plan is prompt¬
ed by patriotism, and which is prompted
by selfisn-ness? The qnest-iou is so plain
that it has left the region of argument and
has become only fit for denunciation.
The Senate of the-United States on
Saturday passed Mr. Clement’s house bill
restoring 540 acres of land in Polk county,
Ga., to Jeol G. Goss. Mr. Goss’ land was
sold by the government for indemnity on
the bond ot an escaped prisoner. Goss
subsequently produced the escaped man,
who was convicted.
“For the Knoxville Journal:
Seven miles from Flint river a well of nat¬
ural gall
Ebbs and flows onee a week, but the stream
is very small.”— Dodge County Journal.
For the Dodge County Journal:
Seven, miles each way from Eastman the
people you appall
By sending them a polecat sheet; give
them a paper though it’s small.
A call is issued for the State of Georgia
for a convention of delegates to assemble iQ
the house of repiesenlatives in Atlanta on
the 8th day of August, 1888, it being the
second Wednesday of the said month of
August, then and there to appoint electors
and their alternates for the presidential
ticket, and to nominate a candidate for
governor, for attorney-general and the
statehouso officers ; to appoint a new exec¬
utive committee, and to transact any other
business that may be deemed appropriate.
The meanest man in the world lias been
found again. Eockmart .Slats says he
chews his tobacco, dries the old chew, and
after it becomes dry he smokes it. The
ashes left in the pipe be makes his wife
use for brushing her teeth, and makes her
spit- in the garden for a fertilizer. We are
in doubt, though, as to whether'this fellow
is worse than the man who is so stingy
tnat he talks through his nose to save his
theth.
Frank Haralson, the Stale Librarian,
cut a prominent figure the other day in a
case in the Atlanta police court. lie had
become insulted at tbo actions at Abe Fry,
a merchant, and to get revenge he took a
pistol in one hand and a cowhide in the
other and held Fry while he attempted to
strike him with tho whip. Fry was too
far off, behind the counter, for the whip to
take effect and Haralson left. All the re¬
ports of the matter which we huvo received
make it appear that Mr, Haralson acted
foolishly, if not cowardly.
Baltimore is the*only city in the United
States.that is not in .a county. It was
hemmed by county boundary lines in an
area of fourteen aud one-half square miles,
and as a consequence it overran its limits.
Houses have gone up in the counties sur¬
rounding it, and as taxes are lower outside
its limits, a population of nearly 100,000
has grown np iu its suburbs. This outside
territory is called “The Beit,” and at elec¬
tion is about to be bold to decide whether
the city limits shall be extended so as to
take in the belt. It is thought that a fa¬
vorable vote will bo cast, as the people
living in the suburbs are to be exempted
until 1900 from city taxes above the rates
they now pay.
MORMONS MUST GO.
Columbia- county is con fronted With a
Mormon problem. Discussing the situa¬
tion, a writer in the Sentinel says :
‘‘No intelligent aud truly respectable
people will for a moment entertain Mor¬
mons or Mormonism. No well regulated
and correct community will tolerate them.
No fond husband and- father or virtuous
.mother will desire their companionship if
they cnce know the truth of their doctrines.
As well might we tolerate the midnight
plunderer or assassin as to tolerate the in¬
dividual that robs your home oi love, peace
and purity. True religion breathes no
tainted breath, disregards no nation’s laws,
seeks no advantage ot ignorance, beguiles
no innocent from virtue’s path, Its prop¬
agators and defenders seek the highest
plane of intelligence, and endeavor to raise
the lowest, il possible, to the same level.
Tin re is no standard of purity to an iinpur,.
fountain—all is bad, vitiated and corrupt.
Hence, as Scripture snit-h, “IIcw can an
impure -fountain bring forth pure water?’
The Mormons must go ironi our midst.
Their very breath is a taint upon our com¬
munity, Go, Mormons! Go ^to y-.ur
strongholds in Utah or Colorado, aud save
us the trouble of forcing your departure,
as has been the case with you in other
sections of our country. The preservation
of tbo best interests of even the foolish ai d
unwise in our community is our right and
privilege—then go, and God and humanity
speed your departure.
The peach and plum crops in this sec¬
tion have been injured about 75 per cent.
We are not prepared to give a fair report
on the other fruit crops.
IIon. W. J. Nobthen, President of the
State Agricultural Society, says that the
farmers of Georgia arc no better off now
than they were ten years ago, and gives as
one reason the fact df their being taxed
forty per cent on most goods they buy.
The Mills bill now before Congress wiil be
the only law of much consequence that has
been passed since the war that beuefits the
Southern farmer very much.
William H. West, of I’iattsburg, Mo.,
and Mrs. Dmcilla Burke were married
last week. Mr. West is 81 years of ago
and his wife 73. The bride has been mar¬
ried six times, her fifth marriage having
been celebrated seven months ago, bnt the
husband the husband lived only three
weeks.
I’rUIMS OF JSTESEST,
The canal which is cut through the hills
from this place to Mr. J. N. Mathew’s
place, and which -some people cal! a wagon
road, needs to be improved. Although it
is only three-fourths of a mile from here
to Mr. Mathews’ place still there will be
more travel over that short stretch af road
than is on ?. ny five miles of road in the
c'-ountv. This shows the importance of
fixing il properly.
It has been figured out by a statistical
official that there are 31 criminals to every
1,000 bachelors, aud only 11 criminals to
every i,000 married- mei... Front this
showing he argues that matrimony„re
strains men from crime and ought, there
fore, to be eucouraged by legislation and
otherwise.
An apple in just as palatable condition
as when Picked from tho tree was found
at a depth of fifteen feet while excavating
for a hr dge foundation iu Gardner, Me..,
How it got there is problem. Somebody
has hinted, sarcastically, that perhaps if
t he d iggers continue they will come upon
tUe tree.
Adam Suits, of Carlos City, Ind-, cele
bratop his 100th birthday on March 1
Ho was boru in North Carolina, was a
blacksmith by trade, aud boasts that no
man ever laid him on his back, It is
said that this is the first birthday for sev¬
eral years that he has not celebrated by
chopping a chord of wood, The inclem
eney of the weather prevented, but he
says tnat ho will do it yet. His sight and
hearing are unimpaired.
In Marion county-several mill damshav
been broken, and roads andf arms badly
washed by the recent rains. Hollis’ mill
dam broke and his two-story mill house,
with about 150 or 200 bushels of coni,
was swept away.
The heirsjjofa merchant of Monson Mass,
received the other day 30e. sent by a
man in Pennsylvania, vylio wrote that they
were to pay for four apples that he took
from the merchant’s store when ho lived
there forty years ago.
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WINES & LIQUORS
Macon, - - - - Georgia.
Lumber For Sale!
VANE AA hundred and fifty thousand feet
of Lumber for Sale. Prices 37 1-2 60
& 78 cts per hundred. On the A. F. Rail
Road, 21-2 miles south of Knoxville.
MATIIEWS & DAN1ELLY
Ordinary’s Notices.
/GEORGIA, U Crawfbril County—Mrs
Cordelia A. Carter has applied for
setting apart and valuation of certain
property as supplemental homestead,
and 1 will pass upon'said application at
10 o'clock a. m. on the 27th (lay of April,
11 X 8 , at my t-ffc-e. CEO. L. fc AM AIR.
Ordinary.
/' EOBUI A, Cray,-ford County—Guardi
vT an’s Sale of Land : 'i'h.e undersigned
as guardian of Mary S. l ee, having ob¬
tained an order of Ron. George L. Saw¬
yer, Ordinary o£ said county, for that
purpose, will offer for sale the following
land held by him as said guardian, on
the first Tuesday In May next bot'ore the
Court bouse door in tbo town of Knox¬
ville, said county. Said land is situated
in the 7th district of said county and con¬
sists of one hundred and twenty-five
(125) acres off of the east side of lot
nujnber seventy seven (77); the whole
containing cash. 125 acres, more Ed. or S. less. LEE. Terms
Guardian Mary S- Lee.