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ITEMS F INTEREST. The Qoviug 1 \ ! aeon road has been completed to V i■■■:\ “Professor” he confidence man who “worked' . has been caught « Savannah. John Hunt;. ot Cedartown, white coupling cars r?.v -k Springs, Friday, was killed, Rome has lx •Co weeks, and ing that time t : ■ vst for has been ti*; ci ty. The total a<! cf cash received JudgeGoolsby . ?:rt at Hillsboro, for' fees for the pas v years, was $1.10 Suuday nig 1 o negro chare,h ;-.t Ty Ty, there » lit in which Reuben A rnoid ssfeot Pa , Hfc in tte arm. C-. P. Bitch. r Creek, while dig. ging around foi ■3 a few days ago, excavated and : out a ledge of ore that weighed .- : x \ toils. The Flint ri nips in Sumter coun¬ ty are full of w keys, one man having counted Kfty • on or.e Jug, while another saw ov . y in a drove. Isaiah Walt. . ged and honest farm* ev. living uen i n, Houston county, savs he has fiv. i d daughters, whose aggregate weig over 1,000 pounds. Ft of. J. V ;cr has resigned the Presidency of t! . G. A. and M. College in Haniilt'in, an brother of the Rev. William M. Hayes, f Dawson, lias been e'ectod to succee : in. Ira Browning, who is now in his 80th year, and who is r niglily respected citizen of Montgomery c unity, spent a night on the batiks of die Ocniulgee river week be¬ fore last fishing fot shad. Several of the progressive capitalists of Atlanta are about to start a factory near fcliat city to produce fertilizars of a supe¬ rior grade in immense quantities. The pcop'c of the adjoining portions of Fannin, Union and Lumpkin w. at to be organized into a new county, with Gaddistown as the comity site, and to be named after Senator Brown. Prof. D. L. Henderson, of Hawkinsvilte. lias succeeded in gettiug a liack (tension of $1,052 f r his grandmother, the widow oj the late S. Wooten Taylor. who was one of the gallant soldiers of the war ot 1812 It was reported at Brunswick Friday that one of the crew ot one of the pilot boats fell overboard and was drowned. A Journal reporter was uuable to learn the unfortunate man’s name or any particulars. Borne of the citizens of Rabun county will ask the governor to commute the sentence of Wru. Hopkins, the murderer who has been sentenced to be hung on the llth of May. There are four men in McDonough who weigh about 1,000 pounds, as follows: Si McKibbcn, 263; Ashbury Turner, 280; Ikaily Varner, 230; Sanford Hooten. 210. wh0 «•»* 1 ' ’ A young fellow in the vicinity of gaudy crcck went to see his best girl not long since, but was disappointed. The dogs chased him through the woods for two liiiles. In Liberty county Selas Sapp eloped with Mrs. Anna Bird, a widow. Mrs Kird’s lather, when he heard of the mar¬ riage, was greatly enraged. He fired into Sapp with a shotgun, then swallowed a dose of poison and died. Sapp will recover. At Albany Friday John R. Lee, a prom¬ inent planter and once a wealthy man, was tried before a jury on lunacy and found a fit subject for the asylum. His wife was appointed his guardian. His mind has been weakened by a series of financial loss¬ es, short crops and other similar troubles. A prominent country merchant of For¬ syth county has been arrested and given bond for selling a blood medicine which it is claimed is intoxicating. vYiliie Wi«ns> an engineer employed at the saw mill of Messrs Bewick & Co. at: Prentiss, met with a painsul accident las! Monday, which resulted in the loss ot the first and second range of finger bones of the right hand. Dalton is to have water "Works. She’ has succeeded in floating her bonds, and is now making arrangements for the erection of the works. Thiough the generosity of other towns almost enough money has been raised to rebuild the churches at Calhoun which were demolislied by the recent cyclones. B. F. Blasingamc. of M on roe, Walton county, has on his piece one of the oldest door shutters to be found. It is made of white oak, and is said to have been made in the year 181b. Guilford Gunter,living near Vienna, has a little daughter who is a perfect genius. She can play a tunc on almost any instru¬ ment, and learns a piece after once hearing it. She also draws nicely. A walnut tree in Habersham county, last summer, sheltered 8 stacks of oats and a threshing machine and power. It is 87 feet wide across the limbs. A Butts county boy attendep the Flovilla high school last term, and got through the five months without spending but 40 cents besides his tuition and board, and it was not because the boy "'id uot have plenty of money either The boy’s father g ive him a splendid horse and new buggy as a pres cut C>r his carefulness with his money. At Monroe, Sunday, Willis Smith and Andrew Vaughn, au associate, were hand¬ ling a loaded pistol, and by some means the pistol w is accidentally ciecharged, sending the hall into the beast of Smith. Wgethcr the wound will prove fatal re¬ mains to be determined. John Turner died at Hamilton Tues¬ day, suddenly. He was the oldest resi¬ dent living iu the county, being one of the fiist settleis in the county. Ho was com¬ missioned bailiff of the grst grand jury that set in the county, and was sworn to attend tht grand jury this term, ol the court, which is now in session. One of the most important sales of real estate made iu Thomaaville for years, was consummated Saturday night by Judge Hopkins. He sold 260 feet front, of the lower end of the Hayes block cm Broad street running back to Madison street, to Selah R. Van Huzer, of New York, for the sum of $10,000. At Cartersvilie Mr. Withers, from Tus¬ caloosa,. Ala., has selected a site for a foun¬ dry and machine shop, and will move there at once. Other parties are negotiating for a site fo*- sash, door and blind factory. Home capitalists will begin at once the erection of a furniture and coffin factory. A panther , a9 bcen fieeu in Liberty county. One night last week he commit ted some depredations about Joscelyn, and an unsuccessful effort was made to track him. Last Thursday night he entered Mr. Sbjoburg’s yard, near the crossing of Fra scr's tramway, and killed his dog. A young negro living on S. II, Wilson’s place, near Griffin, had three fingers blown off one hand on Sunday. Ho was whist¬ ling ou an apparently empty cartridge which he had found, when a companion asked to examine it. He did so, and upon findiug some white substance at the hots tom proposed the brilliant idea of sticking a lighted match iu it while the owner held it in his hand Tho boy holding the car¬ tridge said he never heard the explosion. No report has beeu hoard from the other boy. ROBERT COLEMAN BOLIVER II, RAY JOHN N. BIRCH COLEMAN 1AI & CO., Macon, - - Georgia, Dealers in Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Kentucky Mules and Fertilizers. The following brand of fertilizers on hand: NAVARRA ACID. NAVASSA COTTON FERTIL¬ IZER, GEORGIA PACIFIC GUANO. We keep a supply of the above goods at Fort Valley for the convenience of our Crawford county customer's, which can be had on application to ns._ MBS. M. B. PIERCE, MILLINER DRESS MAKER, --KNOXVILLE, GA- Choice Lot of Mi Ilinerv Goods. Cheapest to be found in any country town Dresses made in the LATER 1' STV LEG. 9 I. 0. HOLMES, Culloden, Georgia, --DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE SUPPLIES & UNDERTAKERS I keep a Full Line of Family Groceries and Heavy Dry Cutlery. Goods, Slices, Hats Produce &c. Large lot Crockery, Glassware, Farm Undertaker's Implements supplies* & spocialty. Country I always taken in exchange at Fair Prices. Wood kaep a complete stock of these goods, both Metal* Cases- Wood 1 have from the cheapest to the best. Burial Kobes & Wrappers. To this line of my bus¬ iness (so much appreciated by my merit patvons liberal since its introduction) from 1 give special shall at¬ tention, pains and by in so serving doing hope proindtly. to a My charges patronage will be the reasonable public. I than spare no vou more you can buy elsewhere. Will attend burials 15 miles with hearse without extra charge when cases are worth 820 or upwards In connection with me Miss AclisaU Holloway has an immense Jineof Millinery and Ladies’ Dress Goods, White Goods, Notions and Novelties in profusion which she is offering superior at remarkably skill low prices. in this Dresses line ot cut, made and fitted promptly to order Her and tact her business just cant be excelled. Then she naturally loves to see you and show you through her stock of goods. She invites all the lacies to call to see her when they come to our little city, and don't be in a burry ; spend the day and she will make it pleasant for vou. Vehv respectfully, __"_ J, O. HOLMES, Culloden, Ga. A shoe factory is t« be established a* Columbus. Rome is talking about holding an expo¬ sition this fall. The colored people of Georgia pay tax on about $9000,000 worth of property. A young man of Americus claims to have solved the problem of perpetual mo¬ tion. W. R. Sills is probably the largest man in Bulloch county. He weiighs nearly 300 pounds. People in Wilkes county ace talking of building a telephone line from Danburg to tie public square in Washington. Thomas county is not planting as many watermelons as her neighbors. It is said that 3,000 acres have bcen planted iu M tchell. It is charged that certain lawyers in At¬ lanta rush to the side of every man injured on a railroad and urge him to begin suit They are also ctiaigod with employing runners, whose duty it is to report to them ail accidents at the earliest possible mo¬ ment. J. A. Bennett, Ordinary of Dade county, met with a ver.f painful accident Monday. While working with a bottle containing a preparation of nitric acid and quicksilver, he withdrew the cork, when the contents boiled out, striking him in the eyes and on both hands. His right eye is badly burned, and fears are entertained of bis losiug the sight of that eye. Ilis hands and wrists are fearfully burned. His little daughter, was burned slightly. During last year ninety-eight public schools were taught in Houston county, and 3,168 pupils attended these schools. There were forty-six schools for whites, at tenbed by 1.112 pupils, and fifty-four for colored children, attended by 2,056 pupils. The‘total amount paid teachers from the public school fund was $5,940.66. Saturday night Frank Tson got on a general tare at Griffin. With a Winchester rifle he shot and killed Mol lie Cotton, col¬ ored, and Dock Thrash Ison is a des¬ perate chaiactcr and has leit for unknown parts. Mollie Cotton and Doc Thrash had bcen living together and had lased a quarrel with Sue Brown, a white woman, with whom Ison had been living. Jlson in a spirit of revenge killed Mollie Cottou ana Thrash. Little Lamar Jones, the ll-ycar-old son of Dr. Chan. Jones, of Eatouton, is un¬ doubtedly an inventive genius. Though quite a child he has invented a plow, an elevator, an engine and many other things remarkable in their way for a child. Ho has also drawn a go.>d map from memory, of New Orleans, and it is predicted that if he lives to man's estate his name will be famous. There is au old lady living in Dooly county who is 76 years old an dean dance a jig with a tumbler cf water on her head without spilling a drop. There is living in the same neighborhood a lady of the same age, and the two living only five mites from each other, have reared fam ilies there and had not seen esch other until last week in twenty-three years, aud duy have been good friends all the time.