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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,,