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THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL.
VOLUME I.
Hots From Ceres.
The prospect for oats in this section is
indeed poor. Mr. J. M. Webb says the
birds have to scratch a hole by the side of
his oats to stand in to prevent stooping
while eating the oats.
Messrs. Jake Blasingame and J. J. Gail
lard were in town Sunday, but we can’t
say who they were visiting.
Rev. A. C. Wellons occupied the pulpit
at Paisselvilla Saturday and Sunday, the
pastor, Rev. J. Y. Allen, being absent.
Mr. Addiel Jackson and Dr. Dewberry
say “your correspondent at Sandy Point
was misinformed; they visited two
charming young ladies.” The old maids
were visiting in Knoxville at that time.
Those settlements in our county that are
so fortunate as to have young iadies as
teachers in their academies, may rest
assured that our worthy School Commis¬
sioner will look to their'best interest.
We have heard that Dr. J. W. Jones
has discovered a new remedy for rheumatic
pains, viz: “Turkey (buzzard) oil.” Mr.
R, K. Webb will furnish the
(buzzards) to get the oil from, and Mr. J.
S. Blasingame is to act as general agent.
A party of young ladies of our ville had
a picnic last Saturday, but instead of
inviting some of Our courting young men
to go with them, took along five boys that
were inexperienced in the business Ah 1
there, young men, don’t you see how the
“Leap year” goes ?
The Journal has more subscribers at
this office than any other paper—just a
few more subscribe and it will be in every
house in our neighborhood. ' Mutavi.
Hickory «rove Happenings.
IIiCReRt Grove, May 8, —Everything
’ is still dry in our noighbrrhood: wheat
aud oats a failure if it don’t rain soon
Poor stands of cotton and covn, in fact
there arc several who are not done plant¬
ing. The poor farmer is to be pitied, tie
makes a draft—fall co i cs and he falls
behind—next year he starts out with re¬
newed energy to make enough to pay up.
The frost comes, the worms come, the
dry weather comes and it seems that every
is agaiust the farmer.
Rev. A. P. Spiders preached a fine
sermon in the ville Saturday night before
the 5th Sunday. The neighbors all met
last Saturday aud erected a bush arbor at
the Grove.
The Alliance met Saturday night—in¬
itiated four members, making 25 alliance
meo around the ville. The boys seem to
be enthused and will work up a good
alliance here.
Mr. Wni. Muliin and W. '•V. Parham
have the best showing for a corn, cotton
and meat crop of any oue I know of.
Mr. J. R. Dorough went through town
last evening, and I gness he was on his
way to the courting ground. He was
driving Buck and Ball, and it was gee
Buck and haw Ball.
Mrs. Howell Adams and Miss Jane were
in the ville yesterday.
Mr. 1). E. Humph, lady and son were in
| town to-day. “dots” Master Edwin says lie will
write you the from his neighborhood
soon.
The young people had quite a gay picnic
at the magnolia last Saturday. Our repr:
sentative courting man-, Mr. Charlie
Fincher, went down to attend. He has.
not said it was a success, but I saw Charlie,
going back down there yesterday and guess
l)o had lest something. Maybe it was.
his—hcar.t,
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., MAY 11, 1888
Uenerosity of Ht’cvrspapers.
“Each year every local newspaper gives
from $5Q0 to $5,000 in free lines for the
benefit of the community in which it is
located,” said Judge Davis not long before
he died, “No other agent can or will do
this. The editor, in proportion to his
means, does more far his town than any
other ten men, and in all fairness, man aud
man, he ought to be supported, not bocansc
you may happen to like him or admire his
writings, but because a local paper is the
best investment a community can make.
It may not be brilliant or crowded with
great thoughts, but financially, it is more
of a benefit to a community than a preach¬
er or teacher. Understand us now, we do
not mean morally or intellectually, but
financially, and yet oil the moral question
you will find the majority of local papers
on the right side of the question. To-day
the editors of local papers do the most
work for the least money of any men on
earth.”— Ex.
Talk About “Hard ’I'inies,”
Our people buy plow-stocks, whiffletrees,
axe-liandlcs, etc., from Ynnkeedom, when
our swamps are full of the fines timber in
the world, just suited for the manufacture
of these articles, and then talk about bar.:
times.
They buy meat and corn from Chicago,
and flour and lard by the car load from t! e
west, when they could raise it at home just
as well, aud then talk about hard times.
They spend several millions of dollars
every year for mules and horses, which
could be raised at home as cheap as a calf,
and tlieu talk about hard times.
They sell their cotton seed to guano men,
paying the freight on the seed and then on
tee guano, when the seed should have been
kept on the farm to enrich it, and then
talk about hard times.
They allow their employes to spend half,
or all, of every Saturday loafing around
town, when they ought to be at work in
the field.
They plant large bodies of poor land aud
gather small crops, instead of using the
compost heap and intensifying, reducing
the cost of labor and increasing the yield,
and then talk about hard times.
They ignore diversified farming and plant
more cotton than is necessary—try to buy
everything from a pin to a piano from the
product of the cotton patch, and then talk
about hard times. —Dodge County Journal.
Fleming tmlictcU.
Fleming, the blind man who has demon¬
strated his ability to cutmarry most people
with his eyes shut, was this morning
indicted by the graud jury far bigamy.
Whether any further indictment was found
against him could not he readily ascer¬
tained. A rumor reached the ears of the
Journal that indictments had beeu found
both against the bigamist annd young Sol
Goldberg for larceny, hut it was impossible
to ascertain the truth, if any existed, in
this report.
Fleming is in tail, Goldberg is out on
bond .—Atlanta Jburnal.
Mary Jahe Christian, a white woman,.
25 years old, was arrested, Monday, Fish, in a
cabin on Mr. Beasley’s farm, F. near in
Polk county, by W. Freeman and
Thomas Clements, under a warrant for
murder from Walker county, Alabama,
charged with killing her infant child. It
is also said she gave away another child
to Mr. Davis, of Ragland, Ala., and a let¬
ter preceded her, saying that she had parted-,
five men from their wives.
A Word From Voter.
Mr. Editor: lu your last issue I see
some good advice to the voters of Crawford
relative to choosing of men to preside over
them officially. This thing you call
voting is a question that needs to be well
considered. In choosing men for the vari¬
ous offi.es of the comity it should .be our
aim only to select men who will discharge
their duty faithfully and fearlessly for the
time for which they are elected and to the
best interests of those who elected them.
Voters and officials arc alike actuated by
motives, aud vve should lay aside ail but
pure and democratic motives. Let him
who aspires to office stand upon the record
he has made as an official or a citizen..
There has been a time when different offi¬
ces were bought aud sold in a speculating
way, as merchandise, a regular barter bus¬
iness ; handled by a few individuals at an
overwhelmuiug per cent. As a remedy,
the voters should keep a sharp lookout,
and the man who offers for office and is
found to he dealing in futures, cut him off
at the ballot box ; allow no man to ride
into office oil the shoulders of promises.
Democrats want office by honest and
means; republicans nse fraud and
deception. Lot the voters put men in office,
not tl>e seeker to choose the office and buy
it with a promise of turning it over to
some othr man at the expiration of his
term. If a man buy an office let him do
it with faithfulness, honestj-, integrity, ca¬
pability, worthiness of the position which
he espouse.
Tf any Iras made a record in an official
capacity that is commendable, let the trust
ready received be his reward. Let no man
claim a future vote for past duties, let them
be ever so faithfully porformed. Voter.
Somew hat of a Sensation.
Mr. Charles Beeman, proprietor of the
Kimball House at Atlanta, had an interes¬
ting interview Thursday morning with a
Boston drummer by the name of Edward
E. Bill, that is to say, the interview was
of a very interesting nature to the drum¬
mer. Yesterday afternoon Mr Bill regis¬
tered at the Kimball, He had an ex t en
sive lino of samples and wanted two
rooms, one for himself and one in which
to exhibit his samples, When the ques
tion of rates was broached the Boston man
was informed that if he got two rooms, he
would have to pay the rate of two hoard¬
ers, as the room could not be rented inde¬
pendent of board. This did not seem to
satisfy the drummer, and he remarked that
if he had to pay, the rates of lodging for
two, he would get a negro and take him
in as his guest.
“Not much,” said Mr. Callaway, the
clerk, who was waiting on the Boston man
,‘ we do not entertain colored people in this
hotel.”
“I don’t see why,” answered the drum¬
mer “they do it North and I think a negro
is as good as a white man. ”
“That may be so” said Callaway, “but
it don’t hold good down here. That cur¬
rency may pass in Boston but it is n. g,
in the South.”
This morning Mr. Beerman was inform¬
ed of the conversation that Mr. Callaway
had with,Mr. Bill, and calling upou the
Boston man, gave him a polite but firm
invitation to pack his sample trunks and
leavo, which the representative from the
seat off'culchaw” did with out arguing the
question at issue—Ex.
Some few parties said they wouldn’t tal e
this paper.. They read.it anyway.
NUMBER 1C.
He Used to tie a Hoy
The oilier day a show came to Little
Rock, and was shamefully imposed upon
by Unolc Isom. While standing near (he
tent he taw a crowd of low-spirited Roys
grieving on account of financial embar¬
rassment.
“Does yer youngsters want to go to tier
show ?” lie asked.
The boys responded in a noi'-y chorus
“Well, come on den. I uster be a chile
myself, an’uulike the nios’ men I hain’t
forgot it. Count dose hoys,” he raided,
addressing the doorkeeper. The man la¬
gan counting, and ky the time the boys
had passed lu, Isom was walking around
talking to acquaintances from the planta¬
tions.
“Here,” said the showman, “give me
twenty tickets.”
“Wat. for ? Does yer think me a lottery
agent ?”
“Yon passed in twenty hoys, and I want
the tickets or the money.”
“I doan owe you no tickets, and f doan
owe you no money. I dind’t tell yer to
pass the boys; I said count ’em. IVe
always heard dat showmen is good on
’rithmitic an’ I wanted to satisfy myself.
Yer say dat der was twenty hoys; I doan
‘spute yer word, base I ain’t no mnthert:
ciun, Spos’n I take a lot of hoys ter de
cashier of a bank, and axes him ter count
’em, does dat signify do cashier is gw no
ter pass ’em into de money room ? No
sah. Go back to yer tent; I see a, crowd
gwine in.”
The showman, remembering that he
had left the entrance unguarded, turned,
and Isom walked away .—Little Rock Ga¬
zette.
Oldl and Welt Kept.
Robert P, Ezelle, of Smithboro, has i 11
his possession a silver spoon that has been,
in his wife’s family (Howards) fin more
than 100 years. A badge of 1844 obtained
in Madiswn, Ga., at the Madison con ven
tion, with the following printed on its
free : “Madison convention. Whig nomi¬
nations. Henry Clay. Theodore Ending
lniysen Whig principles. One Presiden
tial term. A sound national currency. A
revenue tariff with fair protection t - Amer
lean industry. Just restraints on tit exee
ut-ive power. Distribution of the proceeds
of the public lands. An honest and eoo
nomical administration. Freedom of the
election franchiee.” He has also in his
possession one cross-cut saw, one broad ax
aud one drawing knife that have been in
use thirty-six years, ami all in good ordc%
bought of Swanson & Durham, when tin y
kept in the yellow store in Monticello. A
mantel clock bought at the same time, new
in good running order, never been repaired,,
and has never been out of running order
as much as a week. One pocket rule 1 e
has carried in his pants pocket daily for
over thirteen years. Lastly, his old liar.,
ness horse, Charley, 25 years old, fat and
active as a colt, and can do as much plow
ing as any $200 mule.
At Madison recently, burglars entered:
the Glenn house and stole $10 in money,
besides a watch, coat and vest, and other
articles from L. J. Glenn, the proprietor..
On the same night, the residence of S. D
LeSuer was burglarized and $12 in money
.
a watch, coat 1 and vest, and ethci little
articles taken. The Burglars also entered
the residences of Mrs. E. J. Walton, ami A
.
J. Ackerman, but secured nothing, of any
value. They also entered the kitchen - f
Judge G. B. Stovall and stoic some cubd
victuals,,