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THE JOURNAL,
KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO. GA.
PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY BY
PERCY V. HOWELL,
This paper is entered in the post office at
JCnoxoille, Ga. as second class matin • for
.transmission through the mails.
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No advertisement inserted for less than
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or all except lagro coutracts.
T’lic Hails,
The mail from Knoxville to Fort Valley
1 raves daily, except Sunday.
The mail for Prattsburg kaxes on Tues¬
day, Thursday and Saturday.
The mail for Forsyth leaves on Tuesday
; and Friday.
The mail fov Macon, with 12 hour lay
over at Warrior, leaves ou Monday and
Thursday.
A Controversy between the Mirror and
the Enterprise, the two Fort Valley papers,
has sprung up. Dan not the Valley sup¬
port two papers, or do you want the earth,
gentlemen ?
The people are much more interested in
who make the laws than they are in who
is elected to enforce them. The selection
of our law-makers, should receive the most
•careful consideration of each citizen.
In our opinion Rev. Sam Small lias
•never shown less judgment in his life than
.he is showing now, advocating woman
suffrage and trying to organize a third po¬
litical party in Georgia. There are some
mighty weak points in Sam’s make-up.
A man who lives in a wool producing
section wants to know how a tariff bill
can bo in the interests of the people that
makes them raise free wool and then taxes
xheir blankets 40 per cent. The wool is
all right, but the blankets will lie bard to
■explain.
The unselfish patriots of this country
•who are willing to be sacrificed, are being
pushed to the front, permitting their
friends to run them for office Let it not
be forgotton by our friends that The Jour¬
nal can be of valuable assistance to them
in the race.
The democrats of Crawford county paid
a glowing tribute to the ability of editor
Richardson, of the Telegraph, when they
instructed t-liiir delrg.tes to the Atlanta
convention to support him foi delegate to
the national convention to he held in St
Louis. Editor Richardson deserves this
distinction—and more—of the democral.
jn Georgia.
The stockholders of Atlanta’s new pro¬
hibition weekly have selected Col. William
O. Sciuggs, ex-Minister to Bogota, as ed
ito v -iu-chior, Col. R. T. Dow as soliciting
agent, and Col. T. E. Hanberry as business
manager. The first- issue of the paper will
appear May 8, and It will have no connec¬
tion with Evangelist Small’s side show. It
is the intention of ihe stockholders to make
it strictly non-partisan.
A vf.uy curious court proceeding was
bad in tli« case of a prisoner on trial in
Hopkinsville, Ivy., recently. The jury
stood 10 for conviction with a certain pen¬
alty and 2 for acquittal. The Judge com¬
municated this fact to tho defendant atul
gave bim the alternative of accepting the
opinion of a majority as a verdict, which
he quickly agreed to do, paid the fine im¬
posed and was released from jail.
A 4Sood Koad Needed.
“The Knoxville Journal makes an
earnest appeal for a better way from town
to the railroad. It wants a broad way, a
high way, a smooth way and an easy way.
This is right, and it behooves the citizens
and property owners of the place to second
their paper’s efforts. One “country citi¬
zen” has put in a plea to the same end.
Unless there is a widening, and leveling
and smoothing, the casual item in the
Mirror some weeks ago, about Knoxville’s
moving to the railroad, may assume the
form of a probability.
We wish for Knoxville and Crawford
I county the greatest possible benefits of
quick and easy transportation, and ihiiik
these will he realized when the road is
finished to Fort Valley. Here they can
have a good market place within casv
veac h. Cheap goods, and full prices for
all they bring. Business will be done here
°n the basis ot Macon prices. The capital
will come to increase that already here;
and our Crawford people will not have to
wear out teams and wagons hauling over
hilly, rocky roads. What sav you, Broth¬
er Journal ?’’—Fort Valley Mirror.
The Mirror says well iu reference to the
road question. As the people of Crawford
county feelthat their future welfare depends 1
upon the ,, growth , of Fort Valley, they , are
supremely delighted in the fact of a rail
road , , . . built ... from , Atlanta to that
town. This will be a great convenience to
the people of Atlanta anl of Knoxville,
(or then they can have a good market
nearer than New York in which to trade.
You say your capital will bo increased.
Of course it will. When the Atlanta &
FTorida shall have been completed to Fort
Valley the villages of Macon, Perry, Mon¬
tezuma, Americus and others will soon
become the suburbs of Fort Valley, and
capital always flows to the tiade centev.
We are counting the hours between now
and the time when the Furt Va-ley branch
road to Atlanta will be completed. Tire
South is waiting for tins road to ho com¬
pleted, -when it will pour its wealth into
the lap-of the Great Fort Valley.
Speaking of trusts, why don’t the cotton
planters get up a trust and hold their cot¬
ton for higher prices ? Does the detested
tariff stand in the way 7 —Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Oppressed with a tax on everything he
buys, the cotton grower is forced to sell as
soon as be can get his crop ready for mar
ket, else he would doubtless form a trust
to get retiumerativc prices for it. But be
must cultivate bis crop 1 with protected 1
steel plows, attached to protected wooden
stocks, drawn by J highly protected trace
emeus. , He T , must chop it with , protected
steel hoes on protected 1 wooden handles.
He must drink taxed coffee sweetened
with protected sugar, stirred with a pro
teeted spoon in a protected cup, He ..
must wear protected clothes made with
protected thread, held together by pro¬
tected buttons. finally he must gin his
crop in a protected machine, wrap it in
protected bagging and bind it with pro¬
tected ties, to sell it in a free trade market
Under the circumstances thore is no
wonder that the crop is sold before it is
planted, and that the price is made by the
buyer and not tlie grower.—Hamilton (Ga)
Journal.
The story comes trom Shamokin, Pa.,
that James Baily, a miner, with a wife
and seven children, went out in the Read¬
ing strike, was afterward nnable to get
work and became a burden on the town
A few days ago lie got a letter Rom an
English lawyer why wrote that Baileys
uncle, who had disowned him because he
had married a poor girl, bad just died
having him a fortune of $1,600,000.
®The leadors of the Farmers Alliance and
the journals published in the interest of
that order are continually warning the
members against getting the Alliance mixed
with politics. The president of the above
society is a candidate for congress, and we
hear that a publisher of one of the Alliance
papers will run for the legislature. There
is- some ambiguity about this advice, it
seems.
plans and »|i»ecMi«atlo-n8t for
Glim iitriilge.
A three-span bridgs ; the one across the
stream to be 22 feet from arch to arch,
the one on either side to be 20 feet.
The arch on east side of creek 10 be 10
feet from sill to cap in clear, with 6-inch
tenon on each end of post, draw pinned pins. West with
one and a half iueh
side, 12 foot mud sill, drop -ed feet.
Post on mud sill 18 feet, and in cap 14
feet; the outside post let in the mud sill,
14 feet between, with only 12 feet be¬
tween J i cap, with one center post, per¬
pendicular ; post 6 by 8. cap 8 by 10. Mud
silt can be of round pine or post oak
which will square not less-than lo inches,
with a 4 by 6 mortise in each end for a
5-foot pile to he driven in the ground.
The outward ends of the 20-foot spans
on either side to be on a bench as above,
only on a 16 foot mud sill and 4-foot arch
post; sleepers on span across creek to be
24 feet long, 6 in number, made 4 by 12. The
two spans on either side of the old
timbers, with new floor of 2 by down 0 by 16
feet, with a box to weigh the
bridge on either side, made of 2 by 10
inches the full length inches of bridge—said wide, filled
weight with rock box to be each 12 2 by 10 floor¬
; over cap a
ing and a stirrup or hand of one-half enough for by
two and one-halt iron, long
cither end to extend 10 inches down the
aren pest, bolted with three-fourth holt
through said post; there shall be eight
of them.
he Contract for juilding above bridge first wilt
Jet to the lowest bidder on the
Tuesday and in May, reserved. 1888. Bight to reject
all Y all bids
By order ot Board of Commissioners of
Hoads and Bevenue.
O. p. Wright, clerk.
/ VJ 1 EOBGIA, an’s Crawford The County—Guardi- undersigned
Sale of Land :
as guardian of Mary S. Lee, having oh
tallied an order of Foil. George L. Saw¬
yer, Ordinary of said county, for that
purpose, land held will offer for sale the following
-the first Tuesday by him as May said guardian, before the on
In next
Court house door in the town of Knox¬
ville, said county. Said land is situated
in the 7th district of said couutyand con¬
sists of one hundred and twenty-five
(125) acres oif of the east side of lot
number seventy seven (77) ; the whole
cash. containing 125 acres, move or less. Terms
En. S. LEE.
Guardian Mary S- Lee.
Miss JennieMeara > Katie ni si to fore
> close mortgage in
vs. ) Crawford Superior
Clias- it. Meara. <! Court, April term,
It appearing to tlie Colt; by the peti¬
tion of Miss dennle Meara that Clias.
H. Meara on the 1st day of January, 1887,
executed and delivered to said Jennie
Meara a mortgage-and tract of land lying
in said county, to wit : an undivided half
interest in 415 acres of land owned as
tenants in common by said parties. For
the purpose of securing the payment of
cipnl a certain promissory of hundred note for the ]>tin
by the sum said Clias. one 11. Meara, dollars, made ’said
on the
1st day of January, 1887. and payable to
the said Jennie Meara, due six months
per cent ‘'‘j*' per 8 ’ with annum interest from at date the rate thereof, of «
and attorneys’ fees of 5 per cent per
l 1 * 011 *'' 1 , which said note the said Clias. It.
Meara refuses to pay. It is therefore
ordered that the said Clias 11. Meara
]p a y '’if 11 this Court on or before the next
%rm attorneys’ thereof, the principal, interest, and
fees due on said note together
with the cost of this proceeding, or in
default thereof the Court will proceed
as to justice shall appertain. And it is
further ordered this rule be pnblislied in
the Knoxville Journal, a newspaper
published In the county of Crawford,
once a month for four months previous
to the next term of this Court.
G W. Gustin, J. S. C.
True extract from minutes.
II. M. Burnett, Clerk.
SOME STRONG POINTS
The strong points of the Unio" Cen¬
tral may be boiled down into the fol¬
lowing dozen sentences which it will pay
you to paste in your hat:
It lias the
LOW FIST DEATH RATE.
It realizes the
HIGHEST INTEREST RATE
on its investments.
It pays the
largest dividends
to policy holders, and has made the
MOST RAPID PROGRESS
of any company id the United States
It issues endowment insurance at
LIFE RATES.
It makes its policies incontestable
NONFORFEITABLE.
It continues all policies in force, with¬
out surrender, by the application of the
entire reserve theretb. It docs not own
a dollar in
FLUCTUATING STOCKS & BONDS.
It imposes no restrictions on resi¬
dence or travel, and
PAYS LOSSES blasiNuame,' Promptly.
w. p.
Knoxville, Ga. Agent.
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DEALERS IN
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Parties desiring* to buy or sell Real Es¬
tate will find it to their interest to confer
with us.
FOR SALE,
Dwelling with four rooms anti
plenty of yard room. On For main
street of the town. sale
very cheap,
Six room dwelling on the best
street in town can be bought at
about half price.
Farm of 202i acres near depot
for sale.
A 200 acre farm four miles
from town, with church and
school house almost in sight.
70 acres cleared, balance very
heavily timbered. Bargain.
Also another farm in same lo¬
cality. 100 acres in timber, 35
acies cleared. The timber on
either of the above places is
worth more than the price ask¬
ed for the land.
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