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THE KIOXVILIE JOHRNAI i 0 VOLUME I. Items from Ceres, Ceres, Ga., May 2,—I have been think¬ ing for some time that P would w rite you a few dots from our little village. But fbst of all, I would express my gratification at the success you arc meeting with in establishing a long felt want, a county paper. Surely our people have so long felt the need of a county paper that they will appreciate your efforts and subscribe liberal s’. We eannot see how we have managed to do without such an acquisition so long. May it go on to perfection and shed its light of- knowedge, truth and justice into every household in- the county. Its subscription price is so reasonable that all our people can avail' themselves of the pleasuie and privilege of reading it. I am glad to note from your Journal that Knoxville, dear old Knoxville is ad¬ vancing onward and upward, for around anti within her borders-cluster some of my Trappiest childhood and-school days. As l gaze down t he long vista of years gone by rr.emoryjeathcrs those days afresh and the heart frows-pensiva. There wirh tear and 'trembling I first entered the schoolroom to assume those duties that are :t<j prepare us Hr woiideretPatlEat the 1 ifc .jfeBfe| Lnt tljrobs is- not and tfl he a feeling of pridetepringis up when wq Bote that the old town is-tbrow-mg off lierntan *wc of rthgjber. May she succeed beyond the most 4 sanguine expectations. ' ttfc for Editor, we doff the hat and make oua- bow from Ceres, once known as Hopewfcll, and well does she hope, not for herself only, but for her entire county. Our farming interest is well advanced for the season. Grain is looking well with fair prospect for a- good- yield; Cotton planting is also on the alert: Our school is doing well, but could do better. Amicus. Sandy Point Siftings, Times are distressingly dry. Some of the farmers have been obliged to drop (heir plows, as the ground is so dry and hard ti’siust impossible to plow any more before we have rain. If we don’t get rain very soon the oat crop will Ire a failure. Every farmer knows what that rr.eans. By agreement the young ladies of the neighborhood met the school at the well of Mr, E. J. Hancock on the first day of May to see what the future held in store for them. Each one, in turn, would take the glass and gaze with awe info- the well, expecting to see wonders- written therein. Gh no. we cau’t-tell you what they’ saw— ask them. There will be a fish fry down on the creek next Saturday. The finny tribe may look out. Some are going with the deter¬ mination of catching fish nr nothing. Qtheis are going to have a good time. Will tell you who got caught- and who didn’t in my next, if you will promise not to tell them that we told you. We have heard that Hr. Dewberry and Mr. Ad Jackson, of Geres, visited twofold maids,” not long,since, at Sandy Point. Messrs. Julius McGee, Gardner Dent, Dr. Yarbrough and Oscar Kennedy were e round to see some of the boys (?).. Sunday Bight. _ Mr. Jake BlaBingame was down among us one day this week-i He seemed to • he in quite a hurry. Were you looking, for the Justice of the Peace, Mr. Jako ? Mr. Jim Dent, of Macon, is out; visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. J. W. Ogletree is spending several days with-her. mother,.Mrs. Mi L. Ellis. KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., MAY f, 1888 Did Anybodt Kver Beat It. Dr. Sawyer does uotindulge much in fishing, yet ho enjoys the sport as well as most of* us do. He says that he seldom fishes for any kind except reaches and trait; and that when he goes on the wa¬ ter, it is almost a certainty that fish will be caught. A few days ago the Doctor con¬ firmed this statement by a catch he made at the Evans mill. He equipped himself with- a pole and line measuring together u bout forty five feet, put on his hook for bait a minnow, two inches long p and with expectations much larger than any part of the tackle, cast it into the limpid* waters As quick, as thought the cork shot beneath the wavelets,.the Dr. filled with commin¬ gled delight and excitement made a pull, that would have raised a- hundred pounds and brought out a trout iiist double the. size of the bait. Did any body ev-er catch a smaller one? If so, he will not tell it, Kcoxv-ille has lost the two widowers who were referred to last week.as the most gal¬ lant courting men of the town. Business 'of a different nature has*- called them to other places. It may be that seme of the young men dSbok lessons-and will not be so bashful in the future. ' * The County Democratic Executive Com mitlee held a meeting Saturday, elected J. W. Jack Chairman, and appointed W, J. Dent and J-. W. Jack to act in con¬ junction wiih committees from Houston and Taylor counties in fixing the time and mode f. r the nomination of Senator for the ■twenty-third Senatorial District. George Huffman wants it understood that he will be more particular in the fu¬ ture about trying to renew old acqjtaintan CCS. George was mistaken for another man of the county a few days ago in a thing of this kind; and he is afraid that -fellow will.be rnad il be bears of it. SarcU. Detroit Free Fress, The other day a man was walking slow¬ ly up) Miami avenue and encountered a man walking hurriedly down. They ran into each either, both drew off and apoh > gisred,.and the one in a hurry added: ‘•I’ve been.so mad all the morning that 1 couldn’t see straight.'’ “ Nothing serious, I hope.” “Well, my wife had some photos - taken and the artist made a botch job. I : m now on my way to punch his head.” “Cun I see them ?” They were exhibited, and after a careful inspection, the gentleman said: “My friend, yon are way oil'. The work is well done, and you ought to be proud of your wife’s-looks.” “Do you mean it ?" “Certainly. There are not ten as hand¬ some women in Detroit.” “Shod” “It’s a fact; and the work is* that* of’ a real artist.. You should be more than sat¬ isfied." “Well, Ddec'.are E I guess I’ve been too hasty, and? Ell drop the matter light Glad I didn’t punch- the photographer's head.” “Yes; so am Ij” said the other, ta him¬ self, as he went his way. It was the artist bimseif.’ “And are you really so badly broke, my friend ?” lie'said, as he tendered the tramp a penny “Broke?” was the bitter rc- sponse, “I’m as badly broke as the ten .commandments*’' Dots front Ceres: The cold did not kill all the peaches as was once thought. Col. W. P. B!a8ingamc, of Knoxville, attended Justice court here Friday, Mr. T. \V. Jackson is having a little trouble with* whoopingeough iti his family. The latest form of writing a note to call on the girls, is, “Miss*—may I'come to nee you this evening, and. you entertain me by playing- emthe piano ?” One of our boys used this form last week. Beware of those cuffies who have their jaws tied up and say they lisve the tooth¬ ache-on soi e throat, the proper name would be mumps in our town. Mr: M. J: Moore and wife left last Sat¬ urday to spend a while visiting their rela¬ tives ir. Pike comity. . Mr. Buck Murchison has a half Jersey heifer- two years old that gives three gallons of milk per day. The heifer is not fat, and would do much better with special treatment’. The rats are becoming very numerous in our neighborhood, and are so lad as to pick the spring chicks beforejthey get ripe. An old doctor and widower have been rivals for the past few months, and in order to settle their difficulty decided to try their fortune on a*game of draffs. They called in at Mr. Moore’s store last week to play this aU-unportaot game. The old widower came out “right side up witll care"—the old doctor*is-not satisfied and says he wilt run independent. Madame Humor says the Notary Public, Mr. J., wrs called to perform a marriage ceremony not long since, and when the couple appeared he declined to officiate because he loved the young lady him¬ self. J: M. YV. Henry Pope, who is alledged to have made an attempt at rape upon the person of Miss Minnie Kendrick, in Chattooga coatnty, on the 3d of. February, 1887, and was respited by Governor Gordon upou 'sworn evidence*of five respectable citizens that Pope was not in Chattooga county the day the crime was committed, was hanged last Monday night at 2 o’clock from the banisters of the court house at Summer¬ ville by a party of fifty masked men.—-At¬ lanta cor. Macon Telegradh. At Brunswick, William Cunby is haul¬ ing lumber to build an immense oiler and vinegar manufactory,-to be located Dearth* lank-of the East Tennessee, Virginia end Georgia-road. It will be 40x100 feet, two and s half stories high) with a capacity of 100,000 barrels. At a recent meeting of the Confederate Survivors’ Association of Augusta, a badge of honorary membership was voted to Mrs C. C. Jones,- jr., wife of their President, Col. Charles C. Jones, jr., as a token of thhe-ir appreciation of her valuable services in their* behalf, and never flagging interest in their welfare. The presentation was maclo-Tuesday night. Tire badge is a fac¬ simile of one given ex-President Jefferson. Davis. Some people seem to he just above the acme of bliss w hen misfortune befalls a neigbor, or even an associate and some- times-even those they call friends.- Hie souls’ of such people, if they have any soul,- would revolve a billion years within the periphery of a silver five cent piece*. Jones is becoming'pliilosophieal. “What a splendid dispensation of Prov¬ idence that we don’t know when we are to die! Why, if I knew that I had only a week to live I should be a dead man in hour*-’-’ NUMBER 15. More Than His Share. “Ma,” said Bobby, thoughtfully, -‘I wish? I had a brother or two.” “Why, Bobby? a “To divide up the spanking. It’s tough* on a boy to be the only one in the family that gets spanked.’'— Epoch. Meaningless Jargon. Physician—“How is your husband this morning, madam Madam—“Very low, doctor.” Physician—“Is he conscious at all Madam—“No - r he keeps repeating ;* ‘promise,’ ‘never marry,’ ‘my sake,’ an<T other meaningless jargon. He is evidently wandering in his miud." If a young man feck that his life is a* blank, he should try to fill it out and have’ it sworn to.—AT. 0. Picayune. The heaviest rain that Bluffton has had : in a long time fell last' week—Monday accompanied by considerable wind and? hail. The rain and hail fell so thick and fast as to obstruct the view beyond a dis« tance of twenty yards, and the wind blew auch a gale that thoso who had no cyclone' pits promised themselves to dig one if *hey escaped a cyclone that time. East of town on the farms of A. S. Mills, W. P. Kil- lingswortti, Virgil Himes and others of that neighborhood, the hail did considerable' damage to crops, beating corn and cotton to the earth and stripping fruit trees of the iittle fruit that escaped frost. Like dam¬ age was also done west of town, beyond* Coleemokee creek. It is likely, however, that the corn and cotton will come out again, and-the fruit crop is the only thing* that is materially injured. The Farmers’ Alliance is carrying the day in Marion county as everywhere else. The merchants of Buena Vista did not sell-’ goads to suit them and they established a store oj their own. They have placed a man in charge who-sells them g >ods at* a small pei cent. The other merchants held' a meeting and resolved that they would' buy no goods from any wholesale house that sold to the Alliance store. The tarm- ers have organized and it seems that they are having their own way for one time.— Columbus Ledger. Americtis-Recorder says: The Farmers’" Alliance is gaining strength every dav in this county, and bids fair to be a popular-" movement. Tnere are some who seem to regard this organ iza tion as an evil, hut we can see no good" reason why the tanners should not have their organization as well as other classes. If our farmers would hut consult more together, learn by one anotl: = er’s experience, and cultivate more business methods, they would be better off, and so would the ennotrv. Anything witch aids the farmer should be encouraged, for it wilt* aid all other classes. “I-could gaze at the moon for hours, Mr. Samson,” she said in a voice full of swee'- ness 4nd pneumonia. “I never tire of it.” “Ah ,”"he responded, "Would that I wc-re- the man in it 1” “Yes,” she assented softly. “And why. Miss Clara?” he asked, get¬ ting ready to take her hand. “Because, Mr: Sams, b.” she said, shyly veiling her eyes with their long lashes, “you would be 4,000,000 n.ies away.” A railroad from Montezuma to Hawkins- ville is talked of, with a slim chance- off
