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THE JOURNAL, KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO. GA. PUBLISHED EVER! FRIDAY BY PERCY V. IIOWELL. ms paper is entered in the post office at Knoxville, Ga. as second class matter for transmission through the mails. 2s.s.'ri:s. Subscription C months............$0.76 „ 12 „ .. . 1.00 Advertisements 1 inch 1 insertion.....50 •>> 1 column 1 ,, .... 5.00 1 1 year .. GO.00 2 „ •1 „ .. 100,00 No advertisement inserted for less than 25 cents. Terms strictly cash in advance or all except- lagre contracts. '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. ■A 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. o|Ofdj.« | a § c § » § o-j O O 0 O O O O 0 O O O O O 0 l&RVSBsaESBtg SttkTorsovfsvry *zr-i —'-—I Mi^ |gnc«3 91 M C— s ■DEALERS IN £ fcaOKSSHESt 8» ■W > Parties desiring to buy or sell Real Es¬ tate will find it to their interest to confer with us. 0 0 0 0 OOOOOOOOOO C 0 °t 0 + * + 0 + 0 + ‘ , t ‘’ t * t " + ,, + , ‘t* W I T II SEE. ttA-TJ sr, Successor to VV. J. librae. —Wholesale & Retail Dealer in— 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.