THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL &
VOLUME I.
Hickory Urove Happenings.
” Hickory Grove, Ga„ April 24—We
had quite a sad tragedy in our neighbor¬
hood last Friday morning. Col. T. N.
Baines shot himself with a double-barrel
shot gnn. He was-in his 72tid year, and
Rad lived out the time alloted to man.
These cold winds we are having will
make little cotton and garden “sas” look
quite sick. Oats and wheat are fine - corn
is also looking well. A good- rain would
help things look better generally.
Mr. Joe Fincher and son, of Fort Valley,
0 ,"me up an their bicycles last week on
their way to Atlanta. They made the
trip from Fort Valley here in about six
hours— 30 miles.
Misses Alice Higdon, Lula and Ada
Ilammack were in the ville this week. I
think the young ladies had been shopping
and intend to make up their Spring suits.
So boys you may look out, should you see
rm\thing in tbs way of pretty hats and
dresses out at church. 1 )on't tell the girls
that 1 told ycu about it.
Miss Adlle Baker- is in town—-so hoys
come around,
The health of onr ville is good. W.
A Balloon Ascension.
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On Tuesday, the 24th iust., Professor
King, accompanied by Mr. Charles A.
Mathews; jrt, made an ascension from the
Baseball park in Macon in his famous bal¬
loon, Eagle .Erie. The start was made at
12:30 p. 111 . in a light 'breeze, and the
balloon staid up three hours. It traveled
southwarl and was lati ed six miles below
Marshall ville on Jim,. McGee’s place.
Other papers may have a great deal more
than this to say about this air voyage, but
all the facts-are given here.
Ceres Cfii
Ceres, Ga., April 23 —No special news
from this section ; all is quiet and every¬
thing progressing smoothly. Farmers are
pushing with a vim. not through planting
cotton yet; stands of corn not very good ;
oat crop needing rain ; the fruit crops a
failure.
Those who arousing the Hatcher planter
say they are the best in use—they distrib¬
ute the seed nice evenly and can be put
down in less qualities if desierd, which will
advance the chopping. Mr II. has made
improvements on his combine planter,
claiming the use of it in planting, fer¬
tilizing and cultivating crops to be the
saving of the labor cf one man to every
plow run. He thinks now of locating a
factory at Knoxville to build plows and
ulanters. A stock company will bo formed
and parties wishing to take stock in what
will be a live and practical enterprise can
confer with Mr. H. This combine planter,
can be used single or combined ; will be a
corn planter, cotton planter, gwauo dis¬
tributor and an adjustable double plow,
u. ingall kinds of plows, With the fer¬
tilizer box attached will side, fertilize and
four-furrow growing crops all at one going.
It can be used for most purposes either
single or combined. The single plow is
Strong and durable, with very light draft
on horse. Seven premiums and diplomas
have been awarded the above combination
by the State Fairs, and quite a number of
certificates by the most practical farmers.
Farmer.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, voted for
the bill appropriating $100,000 to the
n/.-gro troops who served in the federal
army. Senator Colquitt voted against it,
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., APRIL 27‘, 18SS
Fun Out West.
A writer to the Chicago Tribune tells the
experience of a young man he met at Bil¬
lings, Montana-, The young man told part
of his experience in these words :
“1 was a hotel clerk in Peoria, Ill.,” he
said in the course cf some conversation,,
“and I thought it wonld be funny to come
West and see the country.”
“Haven’t yon found it as humorous as
you ex pected ?” P asked.
‘ I can’t say that I have—I am now
making, as near as possible, a bee-line, for
Peoria. You see, 1 knew a fellow- down
here at Eagle- Pass City, Wyo.,. and be
wrote me to come there and he’d get mo a
job rs night clerk in- the leading hotel- So
1 went and got the place.”
“Did you have trouble with the pro
pi ietor r"
.“No. not at first, anyhow-—it was tbe
guests that worried me. I’ll tell you a
little about it.. The fi'-st night passed off
smoothly Somebody shot through the
window- and knocked the pen out from
behind my ear, and at the time it worried
me considerably, hut I look back at it no-w¬
and it hardly seems worth mentioning.
The second night there was a grand ball
in town, and all the men on the ranches
for thirty miles around came in. They call
it a ‘shindig,’ and said they were going to
have a good time. I saw them for a couple
of hours before da> k standing around on
the corners polishing up their six-shooters
with their handkerchiefs and swearing be¬
cause the government didn’t pass a law
compelling the manufacturers of ammuni¬
tion to make cartridges a foot long. They
said they had come after fun and were
going to have it it it took a leg. I over¬
heard one tall, bony man who had but one
eye and carried a shotgun say lhat he was
no rabbit and would as soon shoot a hotel
clerk as a Chinaman, lie carried his shot¬
gun cocked all the time arid always-walked
in the n i Idle of the street i stead of on the
sidewalk.
I told the proprietor thi.t I was afraid
there was going to be trouble, but he said
1 wanted to stand light up to ’em and. not
bo blufind and it would be nil right, lie
said ho would stav and help me but he
liarl to play the bull-fiddle at the dance.
Just after dark the boys began to drop
in and'register. I would ask them if thy
wanted supper or a room, and they wonld
talk pure profanity-fora minute or so and
then say tlia' they don't want nothing—
they were just arriving. One fellow said
that he hadn’t arrived at a hotel for twelve
years and he liked it so well that he stood
anci wrote his name four, times. Some of
them insisted on dipping the ends of-tinir
revolvers in the ink and writing with
them, and pn tty soon they began to make
a period after their names by shooting
straight down through the register and
counter and pretty nearly into my feet.
After awhile the one-eyed man came in
and said he heard I said he couldn’t register.
I denied it and after talking a long time
got him quieted down, and he poured the
ink out of the bottle down the barrels of
his shotgun and then flourished the muzzle
around over the page and let the ink run
out and made some marks that looked as-if
the cat had dipped her tail in a quart cup
of ink and then switched it around over
the register. He said he usually wrote his
name in blood, and it didn’t come natural
for him.to use-ink-.
About this time a follow rode in op a
horse and said he had taken tiie place for
a barn, though ho noticed now it wa’n’t
haidly good enough for horses. Then he
made liis pony jump over a chair and rode
out. Somebody shot at me a couple 1 f
times through the window, and I caught a
fellow on the other side of the office with
his gun over his shoulder trying to get
my langein a little pocket looking-glass
I was wondering why I ever left Peoria,
when a couple of men came in and w. Iked
up to the counter. They wero pretty
drunk and th-light they were in a saloon
Said one of them :
“Podner, nom’nate yet- pizeu!”
“ W hisky,” said the other, and he to k
hold of an inkstand Hilled with red ink
which I had set up after the other was
empty.
“I’m a-sp’ilin’ gin this time!” said the
first-one, and he took the mneinge bottle,
and then they both tipped' back their
heads and drank. When they finished
they threw the bottles at my head and
abused the liquor for a minute or so and
went out.
After-awile a man rode in and said he
wanted to go to bed. I took a lamp and
went up stairs and lie redo up behind me
and into his room. There he got’ off and
tied his horse to the wash-stand ar.d turned
■ml jumped into bed with his boots and
spurs on, and pulled his hat over his eyes
and started to go to sleep. I knew it was
against the rules of the house to wear spurs
in bed, so I said: ‘I beg your pardon, sir,
but you have forgotten - to take off your
spurs,-’ He began to roar- like a man with
his foot in a lawn-mower, and tried to turn
over to face me, but his spurs caught in
the bed clothes. 1 backed toward the door
and he began to kick. Great Cawar! i
never saw anything . like it. The bed
clothes began to rip and fly through the
air as if there had a couple of cyclnues-col
lided. And ail the time he was yelling
the horse was bucking and jerking the
withstand around the mom. The piece*
of quilts and blankets were getting so thick
in the air that I couldn’t breathe, so I
out and slipped down stairs and loft him
standing up oil the hack of his neck and
nearly reaching the ceiling at every kick,
It reminded me some of what I had read
about the Charleston- earthquake.
When I got down the stairs I heard' r.
great noise in the office and looked through
a bullet hole in the door to see what was
the matter. The one-eyed man was swing?
igg the hangman’s noose aeound his head
and telling how 1 tried to prevent his rag
istering and howl ought to lie lynched
and the othcrc were applauding him.
Then - I concluded Ed got enough I .
thought of Peoria and I slid out
door and didn’t stop walking till I struck
this place and had my ticket bought
straight through.”
0. A. Coleman, of Americas, has a cabi¬
net desk in his office that is quite a curi¬
osity. It was made to order for his
great-grand-fathcr nearly 150 yours ago,
since which time it has been handed down
from one generation to another until it has
finally reached him. The desk is well
provided with drawers and pigeon holes i
for papers, with shelves above for hooks of
any kind and size. It is very handsomely
inlaid with mahogany and other fine woods,
and must have cost a considerable sum
when new. Mr. Coleman values the old
desk very highly and would not p-irt with
it for any price.
Do you want a home? If so we offer
you a chance to buy a splendid little
just a n ile above town very cheap. Four
room house, stove room extra, good
orchard. Fifty acres of laud, well watered,
Pnly 4 600. Howell & Wright.
NUMBER 14.
Jake’s Long Chase,
Yesterday evening an old' negro came
into town followed by a hoy about twelve
years old and a hound dog. The old
darkey was armed with a shot gnn, and
<ue ned to lie excited. Ho asked if a inn
ktfcr negro had' been seen in town who
was carrying a haversack and a carpet bag
He was told that such a negro had just
passed throrgh. The darkey stated that
t‘ic mulatto had stolen some of his’-“things ’
from his house at Byron, and that he had'
followed him all day and was going to
eaten him or kill him.
Several white men who heard the old
man’s story determined to 'help him, and
mounting horses they soon overtook the
mulatto,who appeared at first'to be inno¬
cent of any wrong-doing, and seemed'
willing:!* do any way to prove it. lie
returned with the white men, and allowed
his wallets-searched.
The old negro identified several articles
as his own, which tile young negro said he
himself had bought, but afterward owned
to have stolen from the old man.
The old darkey, Jake Ellis, tells his
story in thiswise: Ob-W ednesday ho was
in the field at work; and only brs infant
■children were in the house, When he
came home from work the little ones told
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him of a yellow man who had been there
and had taken Jake’s bacon and flour
besides a new pair of shoe? and some
clothing and several smaller articles. Jake
t-'und the young negro’s track to measure
13J inches, and his hound found it meas
uring the swamps. Jake did little trav¬
eling timt night, but on yesterday he
followed that darkey through the green¬
wood, and disturbed his rest where the
woodbine tivineth.
Tn a round-about course of about twenty
five miles in extent the pursued and the
pursuer traveled, reaching Knoxville about
sundown. The young negro had stopped I
on the route at one place, and forced a
colored woman to cook the - “rations” he
had extracted from honest Jake’s larder
and away went fifty cents worth of’ bacon
and a half.sack of flour. That mulatto
had an appetite in keeping with the size
his feet,
V warrant was issued by Justice Spill
and Deputy Sheriff Ciilverhous? placed the
rogue under arrest. He owned to having
stolen the things. The mulatto’s ankles
showed signs of having worn shackles, and
he owned to having worked ns a ci nvict
at Steven’s pottery in Wilkinson count}-,
Tbe old negro, his boy and the hound
made one of the best races after this thief
ui record,
The Chicago Tribune, in its frantic en¬
deavor to show that Northerners are ostra¬
cised in the South, has got itself into a
The other day a person walked into
the Tribune office and told a story of IPs
having, been forced to leave Humboldt,
Tenn., because he was a Northern man
ar.d a subscriber to the Tribune. His ab¬
surd story was printed with great particu-
1 irity, and the names cf certain citizens of
Humboldt were given as com poring a band
of ku-blux,whose purpise was to lynch
tbe Northerner. Now for the real facts in
the case. The person in question has lived
and prospered in lliiniumdi, as other
Northern men have done, and he hit that,
town because of kis tendency toward poly: - •
anry. He had one wife t-m many, and si o
matters so warm for liim that he
folded his tent and fled. I'lie eltiz ns wi„.
were mentioned as ku-klux by the Tribune
are preparing to bring suit for libel.-— Sa*
vannak Acte*,
