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ITEMS OF INTEREST. Ilawkinsville is having all the houses in the business part of the city numbered. Glanders havo broken out among Texas ponies on J. M, Tift's plantation near Al bany.. Two negroes have been arrested at Washington for putting a crosatie on the railroad track. There is considerable excitement near Antioch over the discovery of a gold mine in that section. - >*• An o Engh^ ic acvisany at of Brunswick establishing looking a steamship hue from that port to England, 1. W. Dorland, of New Jersey, has bought 1,700 acres of land, lying in the lower portion of Thomas county and part ly in Brooks. Moses Green, a colored bar-keeper, was shat in the head at Macon, Thursday night, during a Republican ward meeting. lie will not die. Fayette county has appropriated $7,500 toward modernizing its court house, ch nig ing the court room to the second story, with the offices below. On Friday morning last the steamer Tar Heel sunk in.the Ocmulgce river on its way from Brunswick to Abbeville. She was loaded with local freight. Gcorge Wave, who i 3 well know at Washington, went in with a syndicate iu a land deal in North Gerogia. He has just sold out at a profit of £4,200. The Ordartown Standard, the new semi ‘Weekly, lias bought the Ccdartown Adver¬ tiser's £lw'ei and good will, and will pul ior.th their first issue next week. The amount asked for from Scriven county for the purpose of aiding in the building of the new railroad from Atlanta to Savannah—£30,000—has been raised. Five miles above Davisboro Friday Rich nioml Hill, colored, 70 years old, in the at tempt to cross the track, was run oyer by the east-bound passenger train and killed. There is a gentleman in Brunswick wlio does not intend going home to sec his mother until be can ride on steel rails to Waycross. He has been wait ug just five years. The best paid colored woman in Georgia is one who cnoksjor the Capital City Club in Atlanta, whose salary 7 is SI,500 a year, besides being given an assistant at a salary of £1,000. The sheriff off Butts county has arrested the two negroes, Bob and Will Jester, who murdered a negro man named Ben Lovett, near Towaliga, in Butts county, some time last summer. They are in jail. There were C35 bales of cotton sold in Cutlibcrt Wednesday. Arthur Hood and J. J. McDonald were the sellers and J. L. Sanders was the buyer. Tho prices paid were 0c and 9jc. Tho two lots brought about £30.000. Friday night the kiln for drying lumber at Bailey's mill, at Job, Sumter county, was entirely consumed, burning up some 12,000 feet of lumber. The kiln belonged to Mr- B. F. Nyscwander, who is running a planing mill at that place. Maj.-Robert R. Terrell, a prominent cit¬ izen of Bain bridge, 7 who was stricken with apoplexy a. day or two ago, is dead. Maj. Terrell was G3 years old, had held many posititions of trust and honor, and was a member of the State Legislature of 18G0. •The Couuty Commissioners of Hancock have corohienced suit against the bondsmen ■ef cx-Troasuer George R. Brown. It is not known how much he is short, but the suit is for something over £11,000. the whole amount paid to him by the Tax Collector, •R. L. Green, of Mitchell county, has in vented and will apply for the patent of a plow which, if he realizes his expectations, will revolutionize farming methods. This pIow promiscs > witl1 olw nllin and two muIes > t0 do the work of four mulc3 and four laborers - A ne 8 r0 named Redmond Clark was struck !j " atrc, , ;:llt car at Amencus Satur day and knoca.. d off the tiack. lie was considerably frightened, but as soon as he ZZSSl Ai a. Subers. of Macon, has received a letter trom a man iu Brazil who says lie , eft Macon in 2853, and has been an exile ever since. He says his age is 78. He tel 1 * Mr. Subers where $15,('00, stolen ,r °m the express company, is hidden in a sunken steamboat near that city. A party consisting of two men, a wo man and three children, while crossing the s ivannah rivJfr at Bister’s Ferry on a bats tean, were capsized and all except one of ibe men were drowned. They were all colored. The remains of one of the party was discovered on last Monday on the banks of the river, Thesecond excursion from Connecticut to boom | njK cities of the South under the auspices of the Post's Southern Bureau aiJ a in charge of Editor li. T. Sperry, reached Rome Saturday afternoon, March 31, after dinner, and left In the evening. Short stops only are made in the various c R‘ es - i ho.party consists of capitalists, manufacturers and journalists. At Harmony Grove several leading bus incss men have put their heads together and decided to establish a bank, Already §12,000 have been 1 subscribed, and there is very little doubt but that the necessary amount, $25,000, will soon be raised and the bank put in operation in time for the falt business. One or two capitalists will also build a cotton compress in all proba bility before the next' cotton season opens, A day ‘ or two ago W. J. Hunter, who bi , s cha ge 0 f Mr. Barrett's farm about oue and a na jf m p ( , g f rom Waynesboro ploughed up au old cap bombshell on that part of the place known as “sugar bill." The shell is loaded, and was doubt less used in one of the skirmishes around Waynesboro during the late war. 'There have been several other shells found, but none ef them were loaded. Cbarles Rutherford, who was implicated hi the killing of Clem Bush near the cem¬ etery at Yv’aymesboro three or four year ago, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Zorn with the assistance of J. II. Ivey, on Mr, Grehier - S lace uear Storey’s mill last Tuegdfty ni „ ht A rewavd of onc h uu drcd dollars has teen offered for bis arrest and safe delivery. At the time of tho murder Sam Williams was arrested by Mr. Zorn as one of the murderers, lie was tried, convicted and hung. Considerable excitement was created at the East Romo depot Tuesday night by a man who narrowly escaped being run over by a passing engine. The man was walk¬ ing up and down the track in front of the depot, when his foot became fasteued be¬ tween tho plank flooring and avail. He could slip his foot along, . but could not pull it out. He frantically called for help, und several seeing the ap¬ proaching engine ran to help him. Tho engine was stopped in throe feet of the man . Two negroes ‘succeeded in pulling his leg out of his hoot. Dr. von Don Hoff extracted a pistol ball from the eye of a little negro child at Athens, Wednesday. The child wasplay¬ ing with a 22-calibre pistol and it acci dentally went off, the ball taking i ROBERT COLEMAN BOLIVER H. RAY JOHN N. BIRCI1 COLEMAN SAY & CO [1 J, II J J .ail 111 m Macon, - - «■» » - - Cxeorma, 5 Dealers in _ Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Kentucky Mules and Fertilizers. Tile following brand of fertilizers on hand : ° NAVASSA acid, navassa cotton fertil IZKR, GEORGIA PACIFIC GUANO. We keep a supply of the above goods at Fort Valley for the S convenience ® of OU1’ Crawford COUntt h customers CUStomeiS, which WHICH Can Can be DO “ ' ‘ 5 l> ' c “'*‘ * • ■ iM&S. M. B. PIERCE f MILLINER s& DRESS MAKER J --KNOXVILLE, GA-- Choice Lot of Millinery Goods. Cheapest to be found in any country town. Dresses made in the LA LLSI STYLES, apS between the eyes and burying itself under (be lachrymal duct. T)i-. von Don Hoff tbmks til0 usefulness of the eyes destroyed, bt 't the child will got well, Mrs. Leithia Rogers, of Dodge county 7 , mct her death in rather a strange and sud den manner on Monday last. On Saturday previous she complained of feeling unwell; Sunday she was induced to take some pills, which had been purchased of some peddler passing through the neighborhood, and on Monday morning-she was taken with a burning sensation in the throat, which soon penetrated the stomach, and she died before medical aid could reach her. Mayor Dunn, of Brunswick, has re ceived a telegram from Hon. T, M. Nor wood, to the effect that Brunswick harbor was remembered in the river and harbor appropriation bill, reported by the commit tee to the House, to the extent of $35,000. dbe telegram also stated that a sub-com milteo of the House Committee on Public Buildings usd Grounds bad reported fnvor ably to the full committee the bill for a public building at-Brunswick. 'A’Jtia is rto Accident. John Allman, a son of A. A. Allman and who was living near Trion, on D. F. Allgood’s place, was shot on Thursday ol last week under singular circumstances. He was showing his father, who had called in, a self-acting revolver, which he wished to sell. H's father took it in his hands, ignorant of its dangerous nature. As he to,,ched tIle tr 'gS er H <lid its work »» d fired > tho bal1 striking his son just in fiont of tb « car - The jaw bone was shattered and the temporal artery cut. He had bled about a gallon before Dr. Rudicil reached him and stayed the hemorrhage. He was unconscious until next day but is now im proving and bids fair to recover. Next week wo will print another piece of news just like this. ISrown’s IProjjosiit Sen. At Albany'Wednesday, Enoch S. Brown proposed to the City Council that if the city would furnish an eligible lot and put an artesian well on it, lie would erect a hotel to cost not less than .? 100,000, pro¬ vided the city would, in addition to fur¬ nishing the site and artesian well, exempt tho property from taxation for a term of ten years. Council decided that it had no authority to appropriate money or levy a tax for such a purpose, but resolved to make an effort to meet Sir. Brown’s prop in another way, ■Biidgi; Sjjiscli. On Thursday night about 200 armed and masked men rode into the town of Ilaynesville, Lowndes county, Ala., forced the jailor to surrender the keys of the jail took out Calovvay, the negro who murder* ed Mr. Mitchell Gresham near Sandy Ridge, and hanged him to the limb of a tree in front of the court bouse, also rid¬ dling him with bullets, The murder of young Gresham was a brutal and cause* less one. A tlruasL, Dr. Pridgcons is a preacher of very 7 pe culiai notions. He lives about eighteen miles from Athens, Some time ago he announced that on a certain day he would preach his own sermon, He has had a piniecoffin made, and when he preaches the funeral sermon the coffin will be plac" ed in front of him Hundaeds of people from all parts of the country will attend the meeting. WHY YOU SHOULD INSURE -IS THE UNION CENTRAL LIFE First— It is a safe company. The laws regulating life insurance investments m Ohio, where it is located, are more strin¬ gent than than those of any other State. Not a dollar can be invested in railroad stocks or bonds, Ls Second— id is a cautious company. death rate is almost mono-third less than the xpeetation Table of Mortality, and in less than that of any other company the United States. managed Thikii— it i s an ably funds compa¬ have ny. For several years pas tits been so invested as to yield nearly over two^per seven and a half per cent, or the East¬ cent, more than the average of ern companies. The prodigious benefits of Conpound shared by Interest each policy-holder. at this high rate are ts Capital vestments. Fourth—I It policies has been arc demonstrated in¬ that a limited payment Life-Rate Endow¬ ment Policy in the Union UeNtral pays better than 4 per cent, government constant bonds, besides furnishing the protection of insurance. Its Fifth— it is a Liberal Com 7 any, policies are incontestible andiion-forfcit¬ able, and thcie are no restrictions what¬ ever with regard to residence or travel after a policy Agent. THE OLD RELIABLE, THE HARRIS HOUSE. KNOXVILLE GEORGIA. When you want a first class meal or a good place to sleep come to Comfortable the Harris House. First Class Charges, Faro, Accommo¬ Rooms, Reasonable dations Not Excelled!