The Knoxville journal. (Knoxville, Ga.) 1888-18??, April 13, 1888, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextITEMS OP INTEREST. Jesup has been shipping green peas for Several days. A beer bottling works is to be established at Atneeicus. T. B Artope, of Macon, will build Jeffer¬ son county’s new jail for $4,400. Columbus’ new directory gives the city and suburbs a population of 00,000. At Macon the firm of S. T. Coleman, Burden & Solomon, has been dissolved. | Ilawkinsville has received a new tion in the form of cider and vinegar works, Laurens county has sold its bonds issued to build a bridge at a premium of $ 1 , 200 . There is now some talk of having two large compresses at Brunswick instead of, «a?. Contributions for the cyclone sufferers at Lumber City arc being solicited at Bruns¬ wick.. 1 bo steeple of the Presbytuiau church at Toeeoa Was badly injured by lightning j uesday night. ’0. A. Beil contemplates starling a straw malting factory at Amcricus during the comimf summer. The Marietta I’aper Mill dam was washed nwav on Wednesday afternoon oflast week. The loss is about $1,300. T’he rosin crop is rolling in at Bruns¬ wick, and the naval stores inspectors are ♦kept busy classifying the goods. Sixty-four rabbits and 118 rats is the record of two day.'. 1 sport by one man at Fort Gaines during the high water. I’ativek Kelly, another train hand on the same train, nad one of his hands barliy mashed -at the -same station while coupling cars. The Rome Tribune delivered Saturday’s edition with boats, the lined making it impossible for the carriers to make their eircuits on foot. AI ft red Beil, (eclaml)was badly bitten by a mad dog Wednesday. A daughter .,f l)r. Willingham, of Crawford, was bitten on the san e day. ' It is said that ail average of POO dozen Cggmne Shipped weekly from Shellman “ W ° aW ° Unt *° °' C1 ® ’ ' ye,U The sconce of Pompey Haynes (col ored), a eonvn t m the penitent,ary. sent fiom 'A ,slnngton county, » rxpieon April He is serving a twenty years tcn "' ■ St. Simon’s Island already has about 1,000 population. The Summer visitors will make at least 1,000 more, to say uoUi ing of what it will bo when the military coa1 °" J. J. Johnson (eclored), of Jackson conn ty, li.is a cow that gave birth to three calves last week. Two of the calves ilrowncd bv the recent rains, hut the third O isauiUji, il, hi" well wen. W, L. Wells, a student at the State University at Athens, snatched a child from before a rushing 1-comotive Tlnrs dry and heroically saved it- from what teemed certain death. A colored man on Mrs, Ann Pentecost , s Sir, i.hiit.iu.m to Ctatolk*'. dwlexstnkni Mm to to,™ . h,-u dut will to, live ptros in two ihivs. lie offers r,o wager a month's work on it. Several of the students who live outside of the incorporate limits of Athens were summoned to work the roads. They claim that students arc exempt, but ilu; ovei soor of the road claims that they have their washing' done in that county', and are therefore residents. They will test the question. The iron for the St. Simon’s street rail¬ way is now loading in New York, and will sail on April 10. The Schooner will unload at the ocean pier, near the lighthouse, and the iron be laid at once. The barbers ef Atlanta asked For closed doors on Sunday*, and the Mayor lias granted the request by vetoing the ordi¬ nance just passed by the Council permitting the shops to be kept open. Several citizens of Tattnall county report the finding of clothing, papers, planter, shingles, wall paper and other things sup posed to have been conveyed considerable distances by the late cj clone, Mra< j oUu B e.U lost a three-room house Ten'uille, last Wednesday, by fire. The k"use was occupied by William Wood, who says ho thinks the lire was caused by the children playing in the closet. Two negroes became involved in a quar¬ rel I ho latter part oflast week at the mil - road camps near Blakely, and one of them shot the other so badly that he has since died from his injuries. The mur erev es¬ caped. At Tv -Ty Sunday three citizens living he t outside of towu cugugch in vat killing at the home of one of them, and uftef kill¬ ing all they could they proceeded to count when it was found that they had dis¬ patched sixty-eight of the rodents. rVhat is supposed to he a Confederate gold dollar was found in an ash shed in Atlanta vccontly, and sold for $30. It is said that only six such coins were issued by the Confederate government, and if genuine this specimen would be worth §t>50. At Griffin Monday night a negro named Eppinger was walking along by the Drake residence when some one shot at him five times, otic shot taking effect in his left breast, making a fearful flesh wound, though not necessarily dangerous. A reward of $240 has been offered by the citizens of Harrison for the arrest, with proof to convict, of the murderer or Bob Jenkins, (colored) who was cruelly mur dcred at that place March "24, and the ! ‘° UC f bnrac-.l ever his dead body to hide Crawford Douglass, an old negro well digger, went into a well on I). D. Xtnltz’s place, five miles from Brinbridge. Fvidav. to oUu*..! it our. flic well caved in, bury- 4 .„ 20 fcs , (lf earth . IV endeavored to rescue him. but after a day’s hard digging gave it up. ^ , r w . McMi||ail ha(1 a wUh an a |i igatov a f cw days ago. The alligator WJXS s ^ ven f oc t and flirce ii.tlies long, and fought gallantly with his tail midi he was killed by being struck over his head a number of times with a fence jail. „ . , ., ,,, p , more an ,i Ohio railroad, 1ms recently r con nibuted handsomely to the Sigma Alpha Ep.-i!ou Club House, soon to be creetul at Arhvns. Mr. Spencer was one of the char ter members of Chapter Beta, of the Uni versity’of Georgia. Various _ con . ectuvcs have been made as * to the amount it will cost Stewart county to replace the bridges destroyed by the late freshet. They range all the way from $5,000 to $10..000. The Ordinary makes an estimate, Based upon reports, that it will cost $2,500 to $3,000. TLu ,W.iy of trains on ilic Ka.t Tenome. V'rtjl* -4 Oto*. «*> Tuesday ™ a smash-up at Chaiincey, where ‘ e ’>w, being run into was thrown tne switco wiili hjc .1 fjicc as to knock it open, and the passenger train dashed into a side track, riuiniog against some box cars and causing a general smash-up that will cost the road$30,000. Nobody was killed, but the passengers were badly shaken up. | H'lic took train had time to to be clear abandoned, the wreck, and other as i some , passenger trains were delayed. ROBERT COLEMAN BOLIVER II. RAY JOHN N. BIRCH COLEMAN Ml & CO COTTON Hi ! J ■ era m Geoi’g’ia, Dealers in Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Kentucky Mules and Fertilizers. Tiie following brand of fertilizers on Land i NAVASSA ACID. NAVASSA COTTON FERTIL¬ IZER, GEORGIA PACIFIC G0AN0. We keep a supply of tire above goods at Fort Valley for the convenience of our Crawford county customers, which can be bad on application to us. MIS. M. E. PIE1GE, MILLINER ^ DRESS MAKER —KNOXVILLE, GA-- Choice Let of Millinery Goods. Cheapest to be found in any country town Dresses made in the LATEST STYLE:-, apG "ST Q fP . a 1J II di o ! Cllil04l0.Il, GeorgSa, ----DEALER IN- G.E*NEp,AL Fxjndertakfirs MERCHANDISE supplies I keep a Full Line of Familv Groceries and Ileavv Dry Goods, ShorS lints &c. keep the a complete stock of these Burial goods, both Metal & Wood Cases Wood 1 hive from cheapest to the best. Robes & Wrappers. To this line of mv bus iness (so r.:ii( h appreciated by my patrons since its introduction) 1 give special at tent-ion, and by so doing hope to merit a liberal patronage from the public* I shall spare no buy pains in serving Will you promdtly. My charges will be more reasonable 'extra than you can elsewhere. attend burials 15 miles with hearse without charge when cases are wortli 520 or upwards in connection with me Miss Ach=ah Holloway Millinery has an immense line of and Ladies’ Dress Goods, White Goods, Notions and cut, Novelties made and in lilted profusion promptly which to she order is offering Her at remarkably low price 0 Dresses her business just emit be excelled. Then she superior skill and tact in this aiid line of through her stock of goods. She invites all naturally the ladies loves to see von show you little to call to s<m her when make they come it to our tor city, and don’t be in a hurry; spend the day and she will pleasant you. Veuy kesi'F.ctfvi.t.y, J> Q- HOLMES, Culloden, Ga. Little India, the daughter of f. J. Brai - don, who lives about four miles from Bos ton, was badly burned on Saturday last She was playing with some other young people near where a fire was built to burn some rubbish, and in jumping over it her clothing caught. She will survive, Near Lexington Tuesday Jeff Donahue (colored! was walking in au old field and found, almost buried in the earth, a glass jar about the size of a pickle jar, in which was placed a well-formed white child about six inches in height. This curiosity is well f.,.nncd an.I is surrounded by alcohol. A young lady of Amcricus bus suggested to a Recorder reporter a design for a crassy quilt which is entirely new and quite unique. She said that she intended t*> cut squares m the shape of the different States ot the Union, and putting them together make a pretty-map 1 of the United States. Late Monday night a negro boy named Willie Hicks, a sweeper at the Macon Oil and Fertilizer Works, went to sleep, and oil suddenly awakening approached the machinery in a sort of dazed way and lay ing his hand on a gin was rudely rm-d • « n • hi* * full »n<M - Iro J * l, ‘" s ‘ •**“ ’ ■'»"** >«" Km to. «™. Anderson Taylor, an aged cdoml man Jiving on M,s. Summerlin’s plantation, W as killed by the engine of passenger train No. 2, near the 131 mile post on the Ccn tral railroad, last Friday. The engineer first discovered the oid man walking by the side of the truck and blew a | whistle, when the man, in presumed cou | fusion, stepped upon the rails, and in an other mo rent he was struck ane instantly ikillod. Lee 1 liouicrson, one of the workmen oa the Macon aud Florida railroad. near Haynoville, on Saturday, while blasting loci., was in the act of igniting the fuse when a spark from the match foil into an open powder can only a few feet away, quickly igniting the contents and blowing M ■. '1 hnmorson several feet in the air When he struck the ground he discovered tli it i.is clothing was in flames, and, re.al i.'.mg that Gomel king must be done, lie ran j llie creek and plunged in, and cxliu« guild'.a], the file. W ID \OU SHOULD INSURE —-kt the— UNION" t t t UUNTIIAIj lilFE g”|athIgHfo ^ i^uranWnvast^nteTn f i rc Ohio, where it is located, are more strln K'Uit than than those or any tuber State. Net a dollar can be invested m railroad stocks kecoxt—’ or bonds is’a it cautious company. Its death vatu is almost one-rhiril less than less the United than'tiiat'of*any Hate,;’. 1, other*'company "in n^ been H For7eVaraTyearJp?s%"tslun«sttivo invested yield so as to over seven arid a half per cent, of nearly two per n. «w« Uto» tlto On a*. S'SKS'lii.tiSSWK'ftS'Sg hurc«i by each pohcy-bohlcr. ait1 s ‘it ViasTen.^dSstratea Life-ftiito that a limited payment Endow b^ter^thun^ 1 per^eent. bonds, besides furnisliing the constant protection of Bisuranea^ • policies arc. iiicontestibYe iind'nou-forfelR- ...... I able, and llieie are no restrictions what , after apolicy ’ lias boon 'Issued. " j W- V. BLASiNUAME, Agent.