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THE KNOXYILLE JOURNAL.
VOLUME I.
'roceeilinga of'Xlie Democrat¬
ic Executive Committee ©f
the SSrd Senatorial Dis¬
trict.
Houston County, Ga., June 1st, ’88.
I According to call, the Executive Coru
littee of the 23rd Senatorial District met
pis day in Fort Valley, Houston county,
iganijsing by requesting Judge W. 1>.
[uttingbam, of Perry, to act as temporary
lamnan, and J. S. Searcy, of Taylor
mnt-y, as secretary. After
judge Nottingham was made permanent
liairman of the committee. Col. IV. S.
jrailace introduced the following resol li¬
ons, which were unanimously adopted:
j |ic Resolved 1st. That the nomination of
candidate for the 23rd Senatorial dis
j-ict stall take place on the 4th day of
inly, kch and shall be by primary election, in
county of the district at election pre
nets. and such other places as may be
pignaMd bv the committees of each
punty..
; 2nd- That the-vote of each county shall
ball be consolidated at the court house by
lie managers on the day after the nomina
on, and forwarded, sealed up, to the
tiairman of the Executive committee of the
istrict at Fort Valley, and the chairman,
hd one or more members of the committee
tom each county, shall ou. the 11th day of
uly vWe mcct at Fort Valley mu consolidate
fo of the distrief and declare the
•suit, -If there is not one-os' more mem
of the .Exeantijp committee present
'fUfi. each county ontne day that the vote
consolidated, then the chairman, or such
:r embers, as shall meet, shall consolidate
IS vote and declare the result—the eau
jjdftte igal receiving shall be the declared greatest tho number nominee of
votes
if the party. .
'3rd.. If any candidate shall desire to
intest) the fairness of the nomination, or
10 legality ot any vote cast, he may give
itice of tins intention to contest to the
iairuian of the Executive committee, on
■ before the day of consolidating the vote
- the district; and the chairman shall
jder tho contestant to give notice to the
kposingcandidate of the time and: place
I which evidence will be taken as to the
gality of any vote cast, and shall postpone
jo consolidation, of the vote for twenty
jys, that evidence may be taken, which
idenee shall be under oath, or afnrma
pn. Thc evidence taken shall bo submit
tl to the chairman, and such other
embers of ibe committee as shall be
eseut, and they shall pass upon the
idenee thus submitted, and receive and
nsolidate all votes that aro legally cast,
d none others.; and after having asccr
i ned the true result, shall declare the
ndidate nominated, who has received the
ghest number of votes.
Ath. No mere informality shall vitiate
e returns from any county, the true
feet being to ascertain and carry out the
11 of the legal Democratic voters of the
strict. The managers shall, be legal
bmocratic voters. The laws controlling
•ctions shall prevail in the nominations
eject to exceptions herein made.
5th. The nominee shall be from Crawford
anty.
Bth. That the Democratic papers of the
trict publish, the foregoing.
W. D. Nottingham,
Chairman.
, .. S. Searcy,. Secretary.
Sx-Gov. Bulllock thinks Cleveland and
urman, and Alger and Morton will be
■ tickets of. the democrats and republic
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KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., JUNE 8, 1888
Hickory Grove Happening;*).
Hickory Grove, June 5th.—Well, the
grand barbecue of Gulloden is over. The
cars are certainly there, and, if any one
doubts it I refer you to 2aeh Harris for
the truth of the assertion. 1 heard, it
whispered around that certain parties of
Cullodcn were making inquiries of some of
the Knoxville boys to know if Zach had
quit keeping hotel. They said they
thought from the way he ate and—and—
drank, that he had closed out.
Let us all put our shoulders to the wheel
and when Knoxville’s barbecue comes off,
make it such a success that parties who
may attend can go back home saying, it
was good tor us that we went.
Mr. T. N. Dorougb has the finest sugar
cane in this section any where; there are
one and a half acres and it will average
three and a half feet high.
Mr, Charlie Fincher is the brag farmer
and, by the way, a good cateb for some of
tlie girls. Ha has about 75. acres in cotton
that will vie with Primus Jones of Baker
couuty. He brought up a stalk to show
that measured 28 inches high and had ten
squares. How is that for high ?
J. VV. Dickey can beat all the boys in
the way of diversified farming; pea-nuts,
field peas, forage crops of all kinds from
the Brazilian com to the pop command, in
fact, is hard to heat on sugar cane and
sorghum.
Messrs. W., T. & H. Dt Fincher are in
the field as candidates for the office of
grain'threshing. “Deck” says he don’t
know what kind of an officer any of the
other candidates will make, but he and. his
brother have served the people before and
gave perfect satisfaction, and intend to do
better than ever before.
General Green has just put in an appear¬
ance, and the farmer boys are stauding to
the rack, fodder or no fodder, and if they
can only have a fair week, will make him
look mighty sick.
Mrs. Martha Allen is lying at deatfe’s
door. May she recover, for we have tew.
better and more- worthy ladies in our
midst.
The Farmei’s Alliance is on the increase.
I heard that a man in Macon, tia., one
who was raised in. Crawford county and
one who the farmers of Crawford had pat¬
ronized, and bad lifted him out of the
“suds,” was talking to an Alliance man
not lung ago in Macon, and said “the
runners were the biggest set of fools ho
ever saw ; they ought to have sense enough
to know they never could unite,” ete.
Well, we will admit that we have been
“great fooin,” or we never would have
bought dry goods from this same mati and
paid him ruinous rates of interest for the
same, which was very detrimental to the
farmers’ interest. But we will try to feed
the gentleman out ot a brass spoon from
now on.
Misses Adna and Lillie Murchison, and
Miss' Alice Rigdon, spent Saturday in
town, and I know if some of the boys had
knowu it they would have had business
here too.
Col. O. C.' Cleveland has a 3-year-old
that can melt the spindles of any gen¬
tleman’s buggy when she gets a little
older. Slro makes it now in 2J. Some of
you young men who need a fast nag,
to come up and trade the Col. out
her. He is getting rather too old to
drive fast stock.
The city council of Augusta is trying to
all swinging signs and awnings,
the matter, has been deferred one month,'
A Chance for a llig Lawsuit
From We Montezuma Record.
Last Sunday while the rain, was pouring
down. Charley Hamilton went out in it
with his fine Sunday clothe* on,,, and he
claims that he ruined a $ 10 pair of pants,
and a $7“ pair of shoes, trying to get Jap
Lewis’ $4.50 cow out of his $1.50 corn
patch. He has presented the bill to Jap
and he refuses to pay it on tho grounds
that Charlie never owned*, a $10 pair of
pants in his life.
During the short session' of Terrell Su¬
perior Court last week, Mack Henderson,
a colored individual, who produced evidence
sufficient to the jury to warrant it, was
granted a divorce. Mack lost no time,
however, in forming another matrimonial
alliance in which he doubtless expects
more felicity. His divorce was received
Monday evening,, and at 10, o’clock that
night he aroused Judge Bell, with another
dusky damsel leaning trustingly upon his
ann. and then arid; there had, the knot! tied
again and went on bis way rejoicing.
On Tuesday afternoon Thomas. Baker,
of Shoal Creek district, Rockdale county,
had been out hunting, and, returning about
sunset, stopped to rest, leaning on his
shotgun, with bis foot on a fence. (Sud¬
denly his foot slipped from th« fence,
striking the hammer of the gun. causing it
to discharge, the eutira load entering his
chest and tliroat. The unfortunate man
lingered? in great agony until near day¬
light, when death relieved him
suffering. He was about 23 years of age.
He leaves a wife and child.
John ITarrfe is a colored preacher living
a couple of miles east of Greenville. When
rain is needed Harris gets many a jug of.
syrup from the planters around in pay¬
ment of promises to get a shower by bis
intercessions. A leading planter says lie
has.given Harris three jugs of syrup, and
that? the rain came as promised nvico out
of: three times The last fug was filled
Saturday, morning and that night the wel¬
come rain began to fall.
Monroe Finkerton and George Edwads,
both colored, living on the place of B.
White, in the eastern portion of Putnam
county, got into a quarrel the other morn¬
ing about a hat. They proceeded to their
work, chopping cotton, and some time
during the day,, when an opportunity pre¬
sented itself, Monroe felled George to the
ground with bis hoe. Upon examination
it was ascertained that George’s skull was
fractured.
On Tuesday last, during, a thunder
stor.il, lightning struck a pine tree on the
place of J. S. Robinson, a few miles from
Camilla, instantly killing a hoise. Young
Robinson, who was plowing the horse at
the time, received a severe shock, and had
his clothing completely torn into strings.
His left leg was very badly burned, and
the steel tacks in his left shoe were some
sat melted and the shoe badly tom.
There was in Macon Monday an old
gentleman from Monroe county named
Lawrence Hammond. He has three broth
ers, aged 71 years, who are triplets.. All
four of these brothers expect to be together
at the state fair in October next. Law
retico Hammond is 74 years old, and has
just undergone, for the past few weeks,
very painful surgical treatment. Sevral
years ago he was kicked over the brow, by
an animal, and some weeks ago he placed
himself uner the care of Dr. It. D. Cotter
of Macon. The doctor had to make a
NUMBER 20-.
siderable opening in the outer plate of the
skull and remove a lot of dead. bone. The
old man hasstood the painful treatment
with remarkable fortitude,, and went back:
home about welfe.
Recently, on the place of T: R. Miller
five miles from. Dalton, a small pig was.
bitten by a common chicken snake, im¬
mediately after being bitten the pig began,
showing signs of distress, and in a. short
time was in strong convulsions. Every¬
one thought the-pig would die,, but strange
to- say it soon recovered and was appareutly
as. well as ever. Nothing more was.
thought of the occurrence until the follow¬
ing day, when the pig was again seized:
with frightful convulsions, at the same
hour as the proceeding day upon, which it
had been bitteu by the snake. That was.
nearly a fortnight ago, and every day
since, at exactly the same hour,, the pig:
has been attacked by these spells.
Even the Twelve Apostles are being bet
upon in these degenerate days. Thursday
a well-known youug ‘-blood” of Athens,,
while in company with some friends,,
started a discussion on. scriptural matters
and wound up by- offering to bet his
bearers $25 that none of them could name
theTwelye Apostles, -. When the offer was
reduced to $5 it was eagerly accepted, but
after repeated trials it was found that not
ono of the numerous circle could get beyond!
ten, and only one succeeded in reaching,
that number.
In Lowndes county, a few days ago ( .
while Edwin and Billy Wilkes were car¬
rying home their little cousin, Bryant
Roberts, a boy 8 years of age, and a soru
of Leonard Roberts, the mule became
frightend at an umbrella as they were
descending a steep hill at the ford of the
creek near A. D. Wilks’ place, and. ran.
away with the buggy, throwing the boys,
out and killing little Bryant instantly..
The others were very little hurt..
Here is an instance of bow real estate
in Americus has appreciated in. value
within the past four or five years. About
that long ago a piece of city property was
offered for $5,000, the owner thinking this
a very fair valuation, to put upon it. The
offer was declined, “with thanks,” (he price
being deemed exorbitant by the would-be
purchasers. To-day the same property
would easily bring $15*000 it placed upon,
the market.
E. C. Bruffey, air Atlanta reporter who
is always involved in something sensation¬
al, wanted to whip policeman Veal a night
or two ago. The policeman was also
willing to fight. Both were fined by tlie
recorder. Bruffey. says that Veal has not
been friendly for some time. He thinks
that Mr. Bruffey did not treat his brother,
Bud Veal, fairly, when the newspaper:
man wrote up the killing,of C. D. Horn,
*■
M. C. Ulmer and _ R. , I. Hurley , have
bou S ht three acres of land from Mr. Out¬
law, fronting on the Long Pond in,
Lowndes county, for a saw mill site, for
which they paid $300. One hundred dol
] ars an aore j or ] an d fourteen miles from a
railroad is pretty steep, it seems, but it is.
expected, that the Georgia Southern will
roll along within a few hundred yards of
tract, some time next fall,,
Near Athens one of the, negro hands,
engaged at work on, tile Macon ami Cnv
ingtou road was shot in the back Monday
with a 38-calibre revolver.. He treatoth
the matter quite coolly and docs not w-n*
be at all affected by the wound,.
