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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 18 ^ 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,.