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GENERAL NEWS.
Forsyth is talkiug about buying a fire
■engine.
The estate ofthe fete Simon Marks, of
Athens, will Toot up over $200,000.
If nothing happens to the peach crop in
Mitchell county, it Will be tho largest foil
..years.past. ■
'The fire that destroyed The .Leyden
House, at Atlanta, recently, is believed to'
have been of incendiary origin.
'There'was an old ladyV0 years of age
-in Bue naA’iita Wed nesday, who never,
-owued a hat nor had one on her head until
that day.
There is a calf on J. T. Allen’s place in'
Taliaferro county that is a living curiosity.
$t ;is several weeks old, and ism perfect ’
ifecalth apparently, but it ifl neither male
nor female, it has hut one eye
'Charles Crisp, jr..j of Americas, has been '
-appointed to a place on the temporary roll
-of the Land Office, at Washington, a« a‘
■copyist. The appointment 'was made- at
•the suggestion of Congressman Blount.
-Judge D. E.Blount, of Clinton, Jones
■county, Las several copies of Tile Clinton;
Rattler, The pqpers.are written in very,
small stylo, on’foolscap paper, and were
issued in- the year 1825 by Peter .Puz¬
zle & Co.
The .recent-session of the Superior Court
•of Henry county has aroused the people of
Hampton. A mass meetingdias been held,
•and a committee of thirty-six citizens was
•enrolled to stop the sale of whisky in the
town in tho future,
<Capt. James, railroad contractor, passed
'through-Fort Valley last Tuesday with a
•number df hands for work on the Georgia
tfjoutkeru-road, fie said he would finish
•the grading on the A & F. .read by the
first of June.— Mirror.
At Rock mart, Tuesday, dirt was broken
■for the foundation of Hogue & Go’s drug
More. It willbe a nice two-story brick
Building and an ottiament to the town,
ilockmart has several slate rock stoves, but
this will he the first brick.
Atlanta has a negro lawyer. Chas. H.
J. Taylor, a colored man an ex-United
States Minister to Liberia, was admitted
to practice in the Fulton Superior Court,
and in the United 'States District and
Circuit Courts, outhe 13th nit.
At Dublin last week J. J. \Villiams
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vho is in jail awaiting bis trial for rape,
de avoid] to escape by burning out some
iron bars, but K. AI. A'nan, who was pass¬
ing by, discovered the .smoke and took
immediate.steps to frustrate the plot.
lshmael Weaver, a, venerable colored
man, of Barnesville, died Tuesday. He
was the father of seventy-two children.
He has beeu heard to say that if he had
kept all his children together ho would
now have fifty-two able-bodied farm hands.
Well Cpillins, a negro, shofand instant¬
ly killed J. A. Sheffield, a prominent- mer¬
chant of lrwinton, Saturday night.
.Sheffield was on his way home and Collins
who stoed'is the corner of a fence killed
Rim with a shot gun, .and afterward robbed
him.
Hon. Primus W. Jones, the first bale
man, brought to the News and Advertiser
office, yesterday, a stalk of cotton which
tie said was a fair sample of a 150-acre
field, from which he confidently expects to
pick a bale of new cotton before Texas can
mature one.
The stalk was eight inches high, and
showed a well developed square, or an in¬
cipient bloom. Its foliage was luxuriant
*nd the whole plant wore a healthy com¬
plexion.— Albany New?,.
William A. McDowell died at his resi¬
dence at Blakely Saturday from the effects
■of morphine taken with a suicidal intent.
He left a letter bidding his family good¬
bye, and giving tbom directions about
what he wanted them to do with his farms
and other business matters. .Physicians
attribute his .rash act to mental aberration,;
as he had been in bad health all the year,
and a deep gloom seemed to have settled
over him. He wae a good citizen and a
successful Termer.
During the negro excitement at Besseamr
colored laborers at Sloss mines, near by,
tendered their services to protect the lands,
and property of-the whites, Two negroes;
last, night attempted to assassinate AIcKeu-!
ney Foster., father of the girl upon whom
the lynched negro at .Bessemer attempted
rape.
There are now twelve prisoners confined
in the Scrivcn county jail, at a monthly
cost of $K):50 each, which foots up $126
a month. Many of them are awaiting trial
ori -charges of misdemeanor, which could
he disposed of by a county court, and thus
save the taxpayers a good round sum each
year
•Dr Junrman, an Austrian chemist, has
invented the most -destructive fluid known
T he fluid, when brought into contact with
the shy alter the explosion of a shell in
which it. is-held, becomes a gas, which de¬
stroys nil living things within its reach,
melts metals and sets everything inflam¬
mable on fire.
Andrew Liprcomb, son of Dr. A. A.
Lipscomb, of rhs University at Athens,
was severely injured Saturday. Air. Lips¬
comb is engaged in the construction of a.
railroad in South Georgta, and while en¬
gaged with some mules had his leg badly
and the injury is so severe that
the leg may be lost.
.'Brunswick hay inverted in a new -60e.
Bible for swearing witnesses on. The
■icasotifor ’fhis is that the old Bible has
Iliad the first four chapters of Genesis kissed
and the lawyers are in doubt whether
an oath made on a Bibleminus its first four
•chapters is binding. The-city solved the
problem by .investing -60c. .in a new Bible.
To-day wifi decide whether Banks county
will sell whisky or not. The county has
been rather dry for years, by the Ordinary
refusing to issue license to retail dealers^
and only two or three places were establish
ed where whisky could he got by the gal¬
lon- Tiie ! figtit is getting warm and if
Banks should go wet there will be a bar¬
room started at every crossroads ju the
•eouuty.
A young man went to call on a young
lady at Valdosta several nights ago, and
somehow he was quite late. She called his
attention to the fact that he was late, re¬
marking that she was “in the arms of
Morpheus” when he came. The young
man added to the embarrassment of the
situation by innocently remarking that he
thought he heard'that fellow go out when
he came in.
The postmaster-general has completed
arrangements with the postmaster-general
of Canada, establishing a uniform rate ot
postage of one cent per ounce on all mer¬
chandise, including grain, seed, cuttings,
bulbs, ecions and all grafts, and one cent
per two ounces of printed matter in mails
exchanged between tho two countries, and
now known as third-class matter in the
domestic mails of this country.
J. N. Johnson, of Sumter county, owns
a mule that is-31 years old —two years old¬
er than himself. The animal has helped to
make twenty-nine crops, and has cither
run away or thrown some one every year
of her life. Mr. Johnson will retire her
this year on a pension, All the food that
is given her has to be chopped up or ground
Levi Johnson, Joe’s Father,boughr her out
of a drove in Americus twenty-nine years
ago.
Two weeks ago a Mr. Cotton and his
wife, after selliug out their property at St.
Augustine, left for St. Louis. At Ohatta-
ROBERT COLEMAN BOLIVER II. RAY JOHN N. BIRCH
COLEMAN BAT & CO
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in ms
Macon, - - - - Georgia,
Dealers in Groceries, Plantation-Supplies, Kentucky Mules
and Fertilizers. The following brand of fertilizers on baud':
NAYASSA 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 customers, which can be
had on application to us.
MBS. M. B. PIERCE 9
MILLINER DRESS MAKER,
--KNOXVILLE, <GA~—
Choice Let. of Millinery Goods. Cheapest to be found An any country town
Dresses made in the LATEST STYLES, *I>6
J. 0. H 0 L M E 8,
Culiodcn, Georgia.
---DEALER IN-
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
& UNDERTAKER'S SUPPLIES
I keep a Pall Line of Family Groceries and Heavy Dry Goods, SlioeS, Hats &e,
Large lot Crockery, Glassware, Farm Implements supplies -& Cutlery. Country 1 Produce
taken in exchange at Fair Prices. Undertaker’s a specialty. always
ksep a complete stock of these goods, both Metal & VI ood Cases. Wood 1 have
from the cheapest to the best. Burial Robes * Wrappers. To this line, of my bus¬
iness’(so switch appreciated bvsny patrons since its introduction) from 1 give special I shall at¬
tention, and by so doing hope to merit a liberal patronage the public.
spare no pains'in serving you promdtly. My charges will be more reasonable than
•you can buy elsewhere, will attend burials 15 miles with hearse without extra
charge when cases are worth £20 or upwards In connection with me Miss Aclisak
IloS.loway has an immense line of .
Millinery and Ladies’ Dress Goods, White t Goods, Notions
and Novelties in profusion which to-order she is offering Her superior at remarkably skill and low- tact prices. in this Diesses tine of.
■cut, her made and just tilted promptly he excelled. Then she naturally loves to you and show
business cant She invites all the ladies to call see t-o her when
you through tier stock -Of goods. and don’t be in hurry spend the day see and she will
they come to our little city, a ;
make it pleasant for ycm. Veov resckctfui.ly,
J, O. HOLMES, Culloden, Ga.
ncoga Airs, Cotton took a sleeper, while
Mr. Cotton took the valise and her shawl
in the day car. Mrs. Cotton did not miss
her husband until she arrived at Cincinnati..
She tfeoe telegraphed -Dr. Garrison, of St,
Augustine, to stop further payments on
property sold by Mr. Cotton at St. Augus
tine until an investigation could be made.
The doctor bad a lotter from the lady on
Saturday, stating that a detective had been
sent to Chattanooga to investigate the case.
Foul play is suspected.
Brooklyn is about to furnish a new
writilde in breach of promise cases. Here¬
tofore suit has been brought almost invari¬
ably by tlie woman whose heart was
lacerated, but in this instance the plaintiff
is a hale and hearty widower of 60 sum¬
mers who answered a matrimonial adver¬
tisement, followed up his letter wi’h a
proposal of marriage, was accepted and
afterwards jilted. The defendant is a
widow of 40, and she is likewise fair and
lat. The power with which she is able
■to smite men's hearts is shown by the fart
that the widower wants $10,000 from her
for breaking his into fragments.
Last Thursday afternoon a large black
bear passed within 100 yards of Thomas
Roberson’s house, just below Leary. Mrs.
Roberson first saw him and called Air.
Roberson’s attention to “a big black dog”
coming up to the house, and he at once
discovered it was a huge black hear. He
took up his gun and went out to short
him and a small dog followed and attacked
his bearship, an! with one gentle stroke of
the paw he seut the dog back to his
mast*-, while he journeyed on without
further molestation,
W. H. Harden, of Brooks, has'invented
something in tlio way of a Tat trap which
will probably revolutionize the rat catching
business. It ’consists of an uptight-circular
p’ece, resting on a wooden base, which is
raised and-set with a trigger so as to fall
with the slightest pressure upon the base.
This always catches at hast one rat.
Then there is a finely balanced trap door
in the mam body of the trap which can
catch the rats as fast as they can walk in
it. This door is fixed at an angle of about
forty-five degrees, and is so nicely balanced
that as soon as the rat crosses the pivot
upon which it is balanced, in he goes into
the trap, the door at once regaining its
first position. There is no end to the
number of rats this trap can catch.
The presbytery of Louisville, Ky , has
adopted tho following declaration concern¬
ing thejproposecl union of the northern and
southern churches of its denomination:
“Until our northern brethren can see their
way dear to adopt a policy of organizing
the oolored people of the northern states
into.separate churches, preslyteries and
synods of their own, and until there shall
be a clearer and fuller understanding
brought to brar on the ruiuds of many ot
our people in reference to their interpreta¬
tion and application of those points of our
common ecclesiastical law, that now deal
with secular and political questions, we
judge that the quiet, peace and prosperity
of both churches will behest secured by
ceasing to agitate or prosecute the question
of organic union, at least for the present.
John A. Phiiips, of Glynn county, soli
Saturday 13,000 acres oflaiul for $17,000,
l ^ jjj ss Dunham, oi Michigan, being the pur*
chaser.